Article
Superoxide dismutase mutations in an unselected cohort of Scottish amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patients.
Journal of medical genetics - 1 Apr 1995
Jones C T, Swingler R J, Simpson S A, Brock D J
Abstract excerpt
Mutations in the Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase (SOD1) gene are responsible for some cases of familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). We have shown that SOD1 mutations can also occur in apparently sporadic ALS. To establish how often this happens we have undertaken a study of the prevalence of...
Topics
- Aged
- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
- Base Sequence
- Exons
- Female
- Humans
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Polymorphism, Single-Stranded Conformational
