Lack of Pur-alpha alters postnatal brain development and causes megalencephaly.

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Published in Hum Mol Genet on October 18, 2011

Authors

Suvi Hokkanen1, Heidi M Feldmann, Haiyan Ding, Christian K E Jung, Lukasz Bojarski, Ingrid Renner-Müller, Ulrich Schüller, Hans Kretzschmar, Eckhard Wolf, Jochen Herms

Author Affiliations

1: Center of Neuropathology and Prion Research, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität and German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) Munich, 81377 Munich, Germany.

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