Electrical myotonia in heterozygous carriers of recessive myotonia congenita

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 123-125

  Deymeer, Feza ^a   Lehmann Horn, Frank ^b   Serdaroǧlu, Piraye ^a   Çakirkaya, Sevinç ^a   Benz, Sandra ^b   Rüdel, Reinhardt ^b   Özdemir, Coşkun ^a  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Electrical myotonia; Heterozygous carrier; Recessive generalized myotonia; Recessive myotonia congenita

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; FAMILY STUDY; FEMALE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; MALE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; THOMSEN DISEASE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; CHLORIDE CHANNELS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FATHERS; FEMALE; GENES, RECESSIVE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTHERS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUTATION; MYOTONIA CONGENITA;

EID: 0032889529     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4598(199901)22:1<123::AID-MUS20>3.0.CO;2-Y     Document Type: Article

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