Diseases

X-Linked Bulbo-Spinal Atrophy

An X-linked recessive form of spinal muscular atrophy. It is due to a mutation of the gene encoding the ANDROGEN RECEPTOR.

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Abstract

An X-linked recessive form of spinal muscular atrophy. It is due to a mutation of the gene encoding the ANDROGEN RECEPTOR.

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  • Atrophy, Muscular, Spinobulbar
  • Bulbo-Spinal Atrophy, X-Linked
  • Bulbospinal Muscular Atrophy, X-linked
  • Kennedy Disease
  • Kennedy Spinal and Bulbar Muscular Atrophy
  • Kennedy Syndrome
  • Kennedy's Disease
  • Muscular Atrophy, Spinobulbar
  • Spinal And Bulbar Muscular Atrophy, X-Linked 1
  • Spinal and Bulbar Muscular Atrophy
  • Spinobulbar Muscular Atrophy
  • X-Linked Spinal and Bulbar Muscular Atrophy
  • X-linked Bulbospinal Muscular Atrophy
  • Atrophies, X-Linked Bulbo-Spinal
  • Atrophy, Spinobulbar Muscular
  • Atrophy, X-Linked Bulbo-Spinal
  • Bulbo Spinal Atrophy, X Linked
  • Bulbo-Spinal Atrophies, X-Linked
  • Bulbospinal Muscular Atrophy, X linked
  • Spinal And Bulbar Muscular Atrophy, X Linked 1
  • Spinobulbar Muscular Atrophies
  • X Linked Bulbo Spinal Atrophy
  • X Linked Spinal and Bulbar Muscular Atrophy
  • X linked Bulbospinal Muscular Atrophy
  • X-Linked Bulbo-Spinal Atrophies

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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.

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History Note

2009(2000); use MUSCULAR ATROPHY, SPINAL 2000-2008

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  3. C10w.574w.562w.500w.374w
  4. C10w.668w.467w.500w.186w
  5. C16w.320w.322.076w
  6. C16w.320w.400.100w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. X-Linked Bulbo-Spinal Atrophy. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D055534. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D055534
  2. X-Linked Bulbo-Spinal Atrophy. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinal_and_bulbar_muscular_atrophy
  3. X-Linked Bulbo-Spinal Atrophy. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1995327