Erratum: Expansion of the spectrum of TUBB4A-related disorders: A new phenotype associated with a novel mutation in the TUBB4A gene (Neurogenetics, (2014), 5(2), (107-13) 10.1007/s10048-014-0392-2);Expansion of the spectrum of TUBB4A-related disorders: A new phenotype associated with a novel mutation in the TUBB4A gene

Neurogenetics

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 107-113

  Blumkin, Lubov ^a,e   Halevy, Ayelet ^b   Ben Ami Raichman, Dominique ^a   Dahari, Dvir ^c   Haviv, Ami ^c   Sarit, Cohen ^a   Lev, Dorit ^a,e   Van Der Knaap, Marjo S ^d   Lerman Sagie, Tally ^a,e   Leshinsky Silver, Esther ^a,e  

^a WOLFSON MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b SCHNEIDER CHILDREN S MEDICAL CENTER OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^c Toldot Genetics Ltd   (Israel)

^d VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Ataxia; Cerebellar atrophy; Dystonia; Hypomyelination; Spasticity; TUBB4A gene

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM ATROPHY; CHILD; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DEMYELINATING DISEASE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DYSTONIA; DYSTONIA TYPE 4; EXOME; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HUMAN; HYPOMYELINATION; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHENOTYPE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEGMENTAL DYSTONIA; SPASTIC PARAPLEGIA; TUBB4A GENE; COMPLICATION; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; MUTATION;

TUBB4A PROTEIN, HUMAN; TUBULIN;

CHILD; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHIES; MALE; MUTATION; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; PHENOTYPE; TUBULIN;

EID: 84900500572     PISSN: 13646745     EISSN: 13646753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10048-014-0401-5     Document Type: Erratum

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