Three Novel Mutations of the Spastin Gene in Chinese Patients with Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 49-55

  Tang, Beisha ^a,b   Zhao, Guohua ^b   Xia, Kun ^a   Pan, Qian ^a   Luo, Wei ^b   Shen, Lu ^b   Long, Zhigao ^a   Dai, Heping ^a   Zi, Xiaohong ^a   Jiang, Hong ^b  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; CHILD; FEMALE; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCUS; HEREDITARY MOTOR SENSORY NEUROPATHY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MISSENSE MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPG4 GENE;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEINS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ELECTROPHORESIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; PEDIGREE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; SPASTIC PARAPLEGIA, HEREDITARY;

EID: 9144223076     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.61.1.49     Document Type: Article

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