Abstract
The human α-synuclein gene (SNCA) was previously identified as the non-Aβ component of Alzheimer’s disease amyloid precursor (NACP). A cosmid clone containing this gene has been isolated and mapped by FISH and high-resolution fluorescence banding to human chromosome 4q21.3→q22.
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BiologyFluorescence in situ hybridizationIn situ hybridizationChromosomeMolecular biologyGeneticsGene
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Yoshiro Shibasaki,
D.A.M. Baillie,
David St Clair
et al.
(1995).
High-resolution mapping of SNCA encoding α-synuclein, the non-Aβ component of Alzheimer’s disease amyloid precursor, to human chromosome 4q21.3→q22 by fluorescence in situ hybridization.
Cytogenetic and Genome Research
, 71
(1)
, 54-55.
https://doi.org/10.1159/000134061
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- 10.1159/000134061