Clinical and molecular genetic features of congenital spinal muscular atrophy

Annals of Neurology

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 731-738

  Devriendt, Koenraad ^a   Lammens, Martin ^a,b   Schollen, Els ^a   Van Hole, Chris ^a   Dom, René ^a   Devlieger, Hugo ^a   Cassiman, Jean Jacques ^a   Fryns, Jean Pierre ^a   Matthijs, Gert ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b Stichting Laboratoria voor Pathologie en Medische Microbiologie   (Netherlands)

^c CENTER FOR HUMAN GENETICS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHIMERA; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MOTONEURON NUCLEUS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0029834810     PISSN: 03645134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ana.410400509     Document Type: Article

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