Genotype-phenotype correlation in myotonic dystrophy

Clinical Genetics

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 20-26

  Gharehbaghi Schnell, Elisabeth B ^a   Finsterer, Josef ^b   Korschineck, Irina ^a   Mamoli, Bruno ^b   Binder, Bernd R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b LUDWIG BOLTZMANN INSTITUTE FOR LUNG VASCULAR RESEARCH   (Austria)

Author keywords

Autosomal dominant inherited myopathy; CTG trinucleotide repeal expansion; Molecular genetic diagnosis; Myotonic dystrophy

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN KINASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 19Q; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; PHENOTYPE; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS;

EID: 0031881189     PISSN: 00099163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-0004.1998.531530105.x     Document Type: Article

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