C9orf72 hexanucleotide repeat expansions in Chinese sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 2660.e1-2660.e8

  He, Ji ^a,b   Tang, Lu ^a   Benyamin, Beben ^b   Shah, Sonia ^b   Hemani, Gib ^b   Liu, Rong ^a   Ye, Shan ^a   Liu, Xiaolu ^a   Ma, Yan ^a   Zhang, Huagang ^a   Cremin, Katie ^b   Leo, Paul ^b   Wray, Naomi R ^b   Visscher, Peter M ^b   Xu, Huji ^c   Brown, Matthew A ^b   Bartlett, Perry F ^b   Mangelsdorf, Marie ^b   Fan, Dongsheng ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY THIRD HOSPITAL   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c SECOND MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; C9orf72 gene; Chinese population; CpG methylation; Hexanucleotide repeat expansion

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; GUANINE; C9ORF72 PROTEIN, HUMAN; PROTEIN; REPETITIVE DNA;

ACCURACY; ADULT; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; C9ORF72 GENE; CAUCASIAN; CHINA; CHINESE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; GENE; GENE DOSAGE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HEXANUCLEOTIDE REPEAT EXPANSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION RESEARCH; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; AGED; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; DNA REPEAT EXPANSION; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROTEINS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84940467082     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: 15581497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2015.06.002     Document Type: Article

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