Identical mutation in patients with limb girdle muscular dystrophy type 2B or Miyoshi myopathy suggests a role for modifier gene(s)

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 871-877

  Weiler, Tracey ^a   Bashir, Rumaisa ^b   Anderson, Louise V B ^b   Davison, Keith ^b   Moss, Jennifer A ^b   Britton, Stephen ^b   Nylen, Edward ^a   Keers, Sharon ^b   Vafiadaki, Elizabeth ^b   Greenberg, Cheryl R ^a   Bushby, Kate M D ^b   Wrogemann, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; DYSFERLIN; PROLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILIAL DISEASE; GENE LOCATION; GENE MUTATION; HAPLOTYPE; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; LIMB GIRDLE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; MIYOSHI MYOPATHY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOLEMMA;

EID: 0032897762     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/8.5.871     Document Type: Article

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