Inheritance of a 38-kb fragment in apparently sporadic facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1437-1441

  Vitelli, Francesca ^a   Villanova, Marcello ^b   Malandrini, Alessandro ^a   Bruttini, Mirella ^a   Piccini, Monica ^a   Merlini, Luciano ^b   Guazzi, Giancarlo ^a   Renieri, Alessandra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b RIZZOLI ORTHOPAEDIC INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Borderline; Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy; Variable expressivity

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME 4Q; CHROMOSOME DELETION; FACIOSCAPULOHUMERAL MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; FAMILY STUDY; GENETIC COUNSELING; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

ADULT; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 4; DNA; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; GENE DELETION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY, FACIOSCAPULOHUMERAL; PEDIGREE;

EID: 0032835742     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4598(199910)22:10<1437::AID-MUS15>3.0.CO;2-7     Document Type: Article

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