C9orf72 hexanucleotide repeat expansions as the causative mutation for chromosome 9p21-linked amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 69, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1159-1163

  Daoud, Hussein ^a   Suhail, Hamid ^a   Sabbagh, Mike ^a   Belzil, Veronique ^a   Szuto, Anna ^a   Dionne Laporte, Alexandre ^a   Khoris, Jawad ^f   Camu, William ^f   Salachas, Francois ^g   Meininger, Vincent ^g   Mathieu, Jean ^d   Strong, Michael ^e   Dion, Patrick A ^a,b   Rouleau, Guy A ^a,c  

^a CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^e ROBARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^f Institute of Biology   (France)

^g PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; BULBAR PARALYSIS; CHROMOSOME 9 OPEN READING FRAME 72 GENE; CHROMOSOME 9P; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; DNA EXTRACTION; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; GENE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEGREGATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; ONSET AGE; OPEN READING FRAME; PEDIGREE ANALYSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL PARALYSIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 9; DNA REPEAT EXPANSION; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; PEDIGREE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEINS;

EID: 84866125769     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: 15383687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneurol.2012.377     Document Type: Article

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