Advances in the molecular genetics of the limb-girdle type of autosomal recessive progressive muscular dystrophy

Current Opinion in Neurology

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 389-393

  Beckmann, Jacques S ^a   Bushby, Katharine M D ^b  

^a GÉNÉTHON   (France)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; PROTEINASE; UTROPHIN;

AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; CHROMOSOME 13; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMAN; LIMB GIRDLE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SHORT SURVEY;

CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DYSTROGLYCANS; DYSTROPHIN; HUMANS; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHIES; MUTATION; SARCOGLYCANS;

EID: 0029906609     PISSN: 13507540     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00019052-199610000-00013     Document Type: Short Survey

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