Batten Disease
Subtitle: Diagnosis, Treatment, Research (Advances in Genetics, Vol 45) (Advances in Genetics)
Contributors: Krystyna E. Wisniewski (Editor); Nanbert Zhong (Editor); Jeffrey C. Hall (Series Editor); Jay C. Dunlap (Series Editor); Theodore Friedmann (Series Editor); Francesco Giannelli (Series Editor)
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: February 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780120176458
Subjects: Genetics (non-medical); Neuronal Ceroid-Lipofuscinosis; Genetics; Science; Medical / Nursing; Science/Mathematics; Diseases; Neurology - General; Science / Genetics; Life Sciences - Genetics & Genomics
First sentence: The neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses (NCLs, Batten disease), are common, progressive neurological disorders in infancy and childhood, with an incidence ranging in various countries from 0.1 to 7 per 100,000 live births (Santavuori, 1988; Uverbrant and Hagberg, 1997).