Identical twins with the C9ORF72 repeat expansion are discordant for ALS

Neurology

Volumn 83, Issue 16, 2014, Pages 1476-1478

  Xi, Zhengrui ^a   Yunusova, Yana ^c,d   Van Blitterswijk, Marka ^e   Dib, Samar ^a   Ghani, Mahdi ^a   Moreno, Danielle ^a   Sato, Christine ^a   Liang, Yan ^a   Singleton, Andrew ^f   Robertson, Janice ^a   Rademakers, Rosa ^e   Zinman, Lorne ^b,d   Rogaeva, Ekaterina ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b Department of Pediatrics   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^e MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; FUSED IN SARCOMA PROTEIN; C9ORF72 PROTEIN, HUMAN; PROTEIN; REPETITIVE DNA;

ADULT; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; CASE REPORT; CPG ISLAND; DNA ISOLATION; DNA METHYLATION; DYSARTHRIA; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; MONTREAL COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT; NOTE; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TWIN DISCORDANCE; CAUCASIAN; EPIGENETICS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PEDIGREE;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; DNA METHYLATION; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA REPEAT EXPANSION; EPIGENOMICS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PEDIGREE; PROTEINS; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 84920504317     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000000886     Document Type: Note

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