Chinese patients with Huntington's disease initially presenting with spinocerebellar ataxia

Clinical Genetics

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 380-383

  Dong, Y ^a,b   Sun, Y M ^a   Liu, Z J ^a,b   Ni, W ^a,b   Shi, S S ^a,b   Wu, Z Y ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FUJIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Clinical heterogeneity; Huntington's disease; Misdiagnosis; Spinocerebellar ataxia

Indexed keywords

HUNTINGTIN; HTT PROTEIN, HUMAN; NERVE PROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAG REPEAT; CHINESE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL STUDY; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC SCREENING; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATION; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHOREA; GENETICS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINOCEREBELLAR ATAXIAS;

ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHOREA; FEMALE; GENETIC TESTING; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINOCEREBELLAR ATAXIAS;

EID: 84874959729     PISSN: 00099163     EISSN: 13990004     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0004.2012.01927.x     Document Type: Article

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