Copy number variation of LINGO1 in familial dystonic tremor

Vafa Alakbarzade1, Thomas Iype1, Barry A Chioza1

  • 1Medical Research (Level 4) (V.A., B.A.C., G.V.H., H.H., A.S.-N., J.K.C., E.L.B., A.H.C.), University of Exeter Medical School, RILD Wellcome Wolfson Centre, Royal Devon & Exeter NHS Foundation Trust, United Kingdom; Reta Lila Weston Institute of Neurological Studies (V.A., T.T.W.), UCL Institute of Neurology, London, United Kingdom; Department of Neurology (T.I.), Government Medical College, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India; Department of Anatomy and Microbiology (R.S.), Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India; Clinical Neuroscience (C.P.), Royal Free Campus, UCL Institute of Neurology, London, United Kingdom; Institute of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences (K.P.), Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom; Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain (L.N.C.), Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY; Institute of Biomedical and Clinical Science (R.C., H.L.A., M.W.), University of Exeter Medical School, United Kingdom; and Departments of Neurology and Chronic Disease Epidemiology and Center for Neuroepidemiology and Clinical Neurological Research (E.D.L.), Yale School of Medicine and Yale School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, CT.

Neurology. Genetics
|March 8, 2019
PubMed
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