Novel causal genes and disease modifiers

Nature Reviews Neurology

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 63-64

  Rademakers, Rosa ^a   Van Blitterswijk, Marka ^a  

^a MAYO GRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER ZINC SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; EPHRIN RECEPTOR A4; FUSED IN SARCOMA PROTEIN; TAR DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; PROTEIN TDP-43;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; BULBAR PARALYSIS; CHROMOSOME 9 OPEN READING FRAME 72 GENE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; GENE; GENE MUTATION; HEXANUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; HUMAN; INTRON; MOTONEURON; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFILIN 1 GENE; REVIEW; TAR DNA BINDING PROTEIN 43 GENE; ANIMAL; CHROMOSOME 9; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE MODEL; GENE DELETION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETICS; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; MOUSE; OPEN READING FRAME; RAT; ZEBRA FISH;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 9; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; GENE DELETION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; MICE; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; OPEN READING FRAMES; RATS; ZEBRAFISH;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84873730841     PISSN: 17594758     EISSN: 17594766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrneurol.2012.276     Document Type: Review

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