Identification of C9orf72 repeat expansions in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia in mainland China

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 936.e19-936.e22

  Jiao, Bin ^a   Tang, Beisha ^a,b,c   Liu, Xiaoyan ^a   Yan, Xinxiang ^a,c   Zhou, Lin ^a,c   Yang, Yi ^a,c   Wang, Junling ^a,c   Xia, Kun ^a,b,c   Shen, Lu ^a,b,c  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b State Key Laboratory of Medical Genetics   (China)

^c CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; C9orf72; Frontotemporal dementia; Hexanucleotide repeats; Risk haplotype

Indexed keywords

HEXANUCLEOTIDE; NUCLEOTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARM WEAKNESS; ARTICLE; BABINSKI REFLEX; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; C9ORF72 GENE; CHINA; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DYSARTHRIA; DYSPHAGIA; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DETERIORATION; MUSCLE ATROPHY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; C9ORF72; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HEXANUCLEOTIDE REPEATS; RISK HAPLOTYPE;

ADULT; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; COHORT STUDIES; DNA REPEAT EXPANSION; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROTEINS; RISK;

EID: 85058205990     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: 15581497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2013.10.001     Document Type: Article

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