Episodic ataxia and myokymia syndrome: A new mutation of potassium channel gene Kv1.1

Annals of Neurology

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 684-687

  Çomu, Sinan ^a,b   Giuliani, Michael ^a   Narayanan, Vinodh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; CHILD; CHROMOSOME 12P; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MALE; MYOKYMIA; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLURRED SPEECH; TREMOR;

ATAXIA; BASE SEQUENCE; CHILD; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 12; DNA PRIMERS; FASCICULATION; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEDIGREE; POINT MUTATION; POTASSIUM CHANNELS;

EID: 0029958199     PISSN: 03645134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ana.410400422     Document Type: Article

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