Ancestral origin of the ATTCT repeat expansion in spinocerebellar ataxia type 10 (SCA10)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Almeida, Teresa ^a   Alonso, Isabel ^a   Martins, Sandra ^b   Ramos, Eliana Marisa ^a   Azevedo, Luísa ^b   Ohno, Kinji ^c   Amorim, António ^b   Saraiva Pereira, Maria Luiza ^d   Jardim, Laura Bannach ^d   Matsuura, Tohru ^c   Sequeiros, Jorge ^a,b   Silveira, Isabel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d HOSPITAL DE CLÍNICAS DE PORTO ALEGRE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; ATAXIN 10; CYTIDINE; GENE PRODUCT; THYMIDINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILY STUDY; GENE CONVERSION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HAPLOTYPE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEXICO; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PEDIGREE ANALYSIS; PENTANUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PRIMATE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATION; SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATION TYPE 10;

EID: 84887212387     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004553     Document Type: Article

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