Reply: POLR3A variants in hereditary spastic paraplegia and ataxia

Brain

Volumn 141, Issue 1, 2018, Pages e2-

  Minnerop, Martina ^a,b   Kurzwelly, Delia ^b,c   Rattay, Tim W ^c,d   Timmann, Dagmar ^e   Hengel, Holger ^c,d   Synofzik, Matthis ^c,d   Stendel, Claudia ^c,f   Horvath, Rita ^g   Schüle, Rebecca ^c,d   Ramirez, Alfredo ^b,h  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c GERMAN CENTER FOR NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES DZNE   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^f LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^g NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATAXIA; CEREBELLUM ATROPHY; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEREDITARY MOTOR SENSORY NEUROPATHY; HUMAN; LETTER; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MYOPIA; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PHENOTYPE; POLR3A GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT STATURE; SPASTIC PARAPLEGIA; SUPERIOR CEREBELLAR PEDUNCLE; GENETICS; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; MUTATION; OPTIC NERVE ATROPHY; SPASTICITY; SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATION;

DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE III; POLR3A PROTEIN, HUMAN;

HUMANS; INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY; MUSCLE SPASTICITY; MUTATION; OPTIC ATROPHY; RNA POLYMERASE III; SPASTIC PARAPLEGIA, HEREDITARY; SPINOCEREBELLAR ATAXIAS;

EID: 85040678701     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awx291     Document Type: Letter

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