A novel α-synuclein missense mutation in Parkinson disease

Neurology

Volumn 80, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1062-1064

  Proukakis, Christos ^a   Dudzik, Christopher G ^c   Brier, Timothy ^a   MacKay, Donna S ^b   Cooper, J Mark ^a   Millhauser, Glenn L ^c   Houlden, Henry ^a   Schapira, Anthony H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SYNUCLEIN; HISTIDINE;

AGED; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LEWY BODY; MISSENSE MUTATION; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLE; NOTE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARKINSON DISEASE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALPHA-SYNUCLEIN; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION, MISSENSE; PARKINSON DISEASE;

EID: 84876226920     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e31828727ba     Document Type: Note

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