Friedreich ataxia in carriers of unstable borderline GAA triplet-repeat alleles

Annals of Neurology

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 898-901

  Sharma, Rajesh ^a   De Biase, Irene ^a   Gómez, Mariluz ^a   Delatycki, Martin B ^b,c   Ashizawa, Tetsuo ^d   Bidichandani, Sanjay I ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MURDOCH CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^e BRC458 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FRIEDREICH ATAXIA; GENETIC RISK; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HYPERREFLEXIA; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; ONSET AGE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIBLING; SOMATIC MUTATION;

ALLELES; FEMALE; FRIEDREICH ATAXIA; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS;

EID: 9644303359     PISSN: 03645134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ana.20333     Document Type: Article

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