Neurodegenerative disease: 'Fifty shades of grey' in the Huntington disease gene

Nature Reviews Neurology

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 421-422

  Squitieri, Ferdinando ^a  

^a IRCCS NEUROMED   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; HUNTINGTIN;

ALLELE; CAG REPEAT; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RISK; HTT GENE; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MOSAICISM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SHORT SURVEY; SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATION; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

DNA REPEAT EXPANSION; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84881376441     PISSN: 17594758     EISSN: 17594766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrneurol.2013.128     Document Type: Short Survey

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