Congenital muscular dystrophies: 1997 update

Brain and Development

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 65-74

  Voit, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Congenital muscular dystrophy; Fukuyama congenital muscular dystrophy; Laminin; Muscle eye brain disease; Walker Warburg syndrome

Indexed keywords

MEROSIN;

AGYRIA; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; BRAIN; CEREBELLUM HYPOPLASIA; CHROMOSOME 6Q; CHROMOSOME 9Q; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EYE MALFORMATION; FINLAND; FUKUYAMA CONGENITAL MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; GENE MUTATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; JAPAN; JOINT HYPERMOBILITY; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; NOMENCLATURE; PACHYGYRIA; PHENOTYPE; REVIEW; WALKER WARBURG SYNDROME;

CHILD; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 9; FEMALE; GENES, RECESSIVE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LAMININ; MALE; MENTAL RETARDATION; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHIES; SYNDROME;

EID: 0031934641     PISSN: 03877604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0387-7604(97)00094-6     Document Type: Review

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