Article
Identification of a novel risk variant in the FUS gene in essential tremor.
Neurology - 6 Aug 2013
Wu Yih-Ru, Foo Jia Nee, Tan Louis C S, Chen Chiung-Mei, Prakash Kumar M, Chen Yi-Chun, Bei Jin-Xin, Au Wing-Lok, Chang Chia Wen, Wong Tien-Yin, Liu Jian-Jun, Zhao Yi, Tan Eng-King
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: A nonsense mutation in the amyotrophic lateral sclerosis gene FUS has been found to segregate in a large family with essential tremor (ET). Coding variants in this gene have not been comprehensively evaluated in ET. We conducted a genetic analysis of FUS for pathogenic and novel coding variants in 2 case-control cohorts among ethnic Chinese. METHODS: In a study that involved 7,548 subjects, we first...
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