A common gene expression signature in Huntington's disease patient brain regions

BMC Medical Genomics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Neueder, Andreas ^a   Bates, Gillian P ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Huntington's disease; Network analysis; Neurodegenerative diseases; Therapeutic targets; Transcriptional dysregulation

Indexed keywords

HUNTINGTIN; METALLOTHIONEIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CELLULAR STRESS RESPONSE; CEREBELLUM; COMPLEMENT ACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DOWN REGULATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE ONTOLOGY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MOUSE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; RNA GENE; RNA PROCESSING; SPECIES COMPARISON; UPREGULATION; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL; BRAIN; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; BIOMARKERS; BRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE ONTOLOGY; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; MICE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84920862489     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17558794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12920-014-0060-2     Document Type: Article

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