Identification of a novel risk variant in the FUS gene in essential tremor

Neurology

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 541-544

  Wu, Yih Ru ^d   Foo, Jia Nee ^a   Tan, Louis C S ^b   Chen, Chiung Mei ^d   Prakash, Kumar M ^b   Chen, Yi Chun ^d   Bei, Jin Xin ^a,e   Au, Wing Lok ^b   Chang, Chia Wen ^d   Wong, Tien Yin ^f   Liu, Jian Jun ^a   Zhao, Yi ^f   Tan, Eng King ^b,c  

^a GENOME INSTITUTE OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b SINGAPORE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^c DUKE NUS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Singapore)

^d CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Taiwan)

^e SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY CANCER CENTER   (China)

^f NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUSED IN SARCOMA PROTEIN;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHINESE; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; ETHNIC GROUP; EXON; FAMILY HISTORY; FIRST DEGREE RELATIVE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONSENSE MUTATION; ONSET AGE; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CODON, NONSENSE; COHORT STUDIES; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; RNA-BINDING PROTEIN FUS;

EID: 84884545450     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e31829e700c     Document Type: Article

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