A Japanese family carrying a novel mutation in the Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy gene

Annals of Neurology

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 399-402

  Ichikawa, Yaeko ^a   Watanabe, Masahiko ^a   Kowa, Hisatomo ^a   Murayama, Shigeo ^a   Mizuno, Takehiko ^b   Komuro, Issei ^b   Ishiki, Ryouji ^c   Goto, Jun ^a   Kanazawa, Ichiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c Okazaki City Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FAMILY STUDY; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; X CHROMOSOME RECESSIVE DISORDER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; FEMALE; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHIES; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PEDIGREE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THYMOPOIETINS;

EID: 0031056554     PISSN: 03645134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ana.410410316     Document Type: Article

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