Correlation between cardiac involvement and CTG trinucleotide repeat length in myotonic dystrophy

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 239-245

  Melacini, Paola ^a   Villanova, Carla ^a   Menegazzo, Elisabetta ^a   Novelli, Giuseppe ^b   Danieli, Gianantonio ^a   Rizzoli, Giulio ^a   Fasoli, Giuseppe ^a   Angelini, Corrado ^a   Buja, Gianfranco ^a   Miorelli, Manuela ^a   Dallapiccola, Bruno ^b   Volta, Sergio Dalla ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; GUANINE; REPETITIVE DNA; THYMINE; TRINUCLEOTIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPLICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ETIOLOGY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUDDEN DEATH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; DNA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HEART DISEASES; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0028817590     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0735-1097(94)00351-P     Document Type: Article

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