Assignment of a form of congenital muscular dystrophy with secondary merosin deficiency to chromosome 1q42

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 428-435

  Brockington, Martin ^a   Sewry, Caroline A ^a,b   Herrmann, Ralf ^c   Naom, Isam ^a   Dearlove, Andrew ^d   Rhodes, Michael ^d   Topaloglu, Haluk ^e   Dubowitz, Victor ^a   Voit, Thomas ^c   Muntoni, Francesco ^a,f  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b ROBERT JONES AND AGNES HUNT ORTHOPAEDIC HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^d Genome Campus Hinxton   (United Kingdom)

^e HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^f HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE; LAMININ; MEROSIN;

ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; CHROMOSOME 1Q; CONTRACTURE; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MUSCLE HYPERTROPHY; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; PEDIGREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RIGIDITY; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES;

EID: 0033911803     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/302775     Document Type: Article

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