Late onset ataxia: MSA-C or SCA 17? A gene penetrance dilemma

Movement Disorders

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 36-38

  Doherty, Karen M ^a,b   Warner, Thomas T ^a,b   Lees, Andrew J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; SILDENAFIL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM ATROPHY; DEMENTIA; DIZZINESS; DYSARTHRIA; DYSDIADOCHOKINESIA; ENTEROPATHY; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; EYE TRACKING; FAMILY HISTORY; GAIT DISORDER; HAND TREMOR; HUMAN; LEG DISEASE; LEG LENGTH; LEG TREMOR; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MULTIPLE SYSTEM ATROPHY CEREBELLAR TYPE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PENETRANCE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMINI MYOCLONUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REM SLEEP; REM SLEEP BEHAVIOUR DISORDER; SLEEP DISORDER; SLURRED SPEECH; SPINOCEREBELLAR ATAXIA 17; URINARY FREQUENCY; URINE INCONTINENCE;

ALLELES; ATAXIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SYSTEM ATROPHY; PENETRANCE; SPINOCEREBELLAR ATAXIAS; TATA-BOX BINDING PROTEIN;

EID: 84892902887     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.25770     Document Type: Article

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