Spinocerebellar ataxia type 3/machado-joseph disease manifested as spastic paraplegia: A clinical and genetic study

Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 417-420

  Song, Yanmin ^a   Liu, Yunhai ^a   Zhang, Ning ^a   Long, Lili ^a  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

CAG trinucleotide repeats; Genetic anticipation; Hereditary spinocerebellar ataxia type 3; Machado Joseph disease gene; Mutation analysis; Spastic paraplegia

Indexed keywords

ATAXIN 3; LIOTHYRONINE; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; CEREBELLUM ATROPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRACTURE; DNA EXTRACTION; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HEREDITARY MOTOR SENSORY NEUROPATHY; HUMAN; KARYOTYPE 46, XY; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL FUNCTION; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTOKINETIC NYSTAGMUS; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPASTIC PARAPLEGIA; SPASTICITY; SPEECH DISORDER; SPINOCEREBELLAR ATAXIA TYPE 3 MACHADO JOSEPH DISEASE; SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATION; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; WEAKNESS;

EID: 84918776695     PISSN: 17920981     EISSN: 17921015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/etm.2014.2136     Document Type: Article

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