X-linked bulbospinal muscular atrophy (Kennedy's disease);X-chromosomale bulbospinale muskelatrophie (Kennedy-syndrom)

Schweizerische Medizinische Wochenschrift

Volumn 128, Issue 21, 1998, Pages 817-823

  Berkhoff, M ^a   Sturzenegger, M ^a   Spiegel, R ^b   Rosler K M ^a   Hess, Ch W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; GENETIC COUNSELING; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; PEDIGREE; PROGNOSIS; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY; X CHROMOSOME LINKED DISORDER;

ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; GENES, RECESSIVE; GENETIC COUNSELING; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULAR ATROPHY; NYSTAGMUS, PATHOLOGIC; PEDIGREE; SEX CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0032560418     PISSN: 00367672     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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