Pathogenic variants in TUBB4A are not found in primary dystonia

Neurology

Volumn 82, Issue 14, 2014, Pages 1227-1230

  Vemula, Satya R ^a   Xiao, Jianfeng ^a   Bastian, Robert W ^b   Momčilović, Dragana ^c   Blitzer, Andrew ^d   LeDoux, Mark S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b Bastian Voice Institute   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^d New York Center for Voice and Swallowing Disorders   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; BASAL GANGLION; CEREBELLUM; CHOREA; DYSARTHRIA; EXON; FACE DYSMORPHIA; FEMALE; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENERALIZED DYSTONIA; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SCREENING; HIGH RESOLUTION MELTING ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PEDIGREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEGMENTAL DYSTONIA; SPASMODIC DYSPHONIA; TUBB4A GENE; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; DYSTONIC DISORDERS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC TESTING; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; TUBULIN;

EID: 84902156286     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000000294     Document Type: Article

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