Oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy: Non-French-Canadian pedigrees

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 816-818

  Creel, George B ^a   Giuliani, Michael J ^b   Lacomis, David ^b   Holbach, Suzanne M ^b  

^a WRIGHT PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Muscular dystrophy; Myopathy; Oculopharyngeal dystrophy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME 14Q; CLINICAL FEATURE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LOCATION; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCLE BIOPSY; OCULOPHARYNGEAL MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; PEDIGREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; CANADA; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHIES; OCULOMOTOR MUSCLES; PHARYNGEAL MUSCLES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0031839306     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4598(199806)21:6<816::AID-MUS19>3.0.CO;2-Q     Document Type: Article

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