Early onset of X-linked Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy in a boy with emerin gene deletion

Neuropediatrics

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 161-163

  Fujimoto, Shinji ^a   Ishikawa, T ^a   Saito, M ^a   Wada, Y ^a   Wada, I ^a   Arahata, K ^b   Nonaka, I ^c  

^a NAGOYA CITY UNIV MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE   (Japan)

^c National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry   (Japan)

Author keywords

Emerin; Emery Dreifuss muscular dystrophy; Molecular genetic diagnosis; Muscle contracture

Indexed keywords

EMERIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ACHILLES TENDON; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRACTURE; DNA DETERMINATION; EMERY DREIFUSS MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; GENE DELETION; HUMAN; MALE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUSCLE; MUSCLE BIOPSY; ONSET AGE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SUDDEN DEATH; SYMPTOM; X CHROMOSOME LINKAGE;

EID: 0032783007     PISSN: 0174304X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-973484     Document Type: Article

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