Clinical and genetic characteristics of a five-generation family with a novel form of myotonic dystrophy (DM2)

Neuromuscular Disorders

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 19-27

  Day, John W ^a   Roelofs, Robert ^a   Leroy, Bonnie ^a   Pech, Irene ^a   Benzow, Kellie ^a   Ranum, Laura P W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

DM; DM2; Myotonia; Myotonic dystrophy; Proximal myotonic myopathy

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN KINASE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHROMOSOME 3Q; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PEDIGREE; PENETRANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARRHYTHMIA; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 3; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 9; DNA; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ENDOCRINE GLANDS; FEMALE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HUMANS; ION CHANNELS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; PEDIGREE;

EID: 0032995065     PISSN: 09608966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-8966(98)00094-7     Document Type: Article

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