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Manganese-containing superoxide dismutase signal sequence polymorphism associated with sporadic motor neuron disease.
European journal of neurology - 1 Nov 1999
Van Landeghem G F, Tabatabaie P, Beckman G, Beckman L, Andersen P M
Abstract excerpt
An alanin-9valin (Ala-9Val) polymorphism in the mitochondrial targeting sequence of manganese-containing superoxide dismutase (Mn-SOD) has recently been described. We studied this polymorphism in 72 Swedish patients with sporadic motor neuron diseases (MND) and controls using an oligonucleotide ligation assay. There were significant differences in genotype between MND patients and controls (P = 0.025), and...
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