Muscular dystrophy due to dysferlin deficiency in Libyan Jews. Clinical and genetic features

Brain

Volumn 123, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1229-1237

  Argov, Zohar ^a   Sadeh, Menachem ^b   Mazor, Kineret ^a   Soffer, Dov ^a   Kahana, Esther ^c   Eisenberg, Iris ^a   Mitrani Rosenbaum, Stella ^a   Richard, Isabelle ^d   Beckmann, Jacques ^d   Keers, Sharon ^e   Bashir, Rumaisa ^e   Bushby, Kate ^e   Rosenmann, Hanna ^a  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b WOLFSON MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c Barzilai Hospital   (Israel)

^d GÉNÉTHON   (France)

^e Hadassah University Hospital ^*

Author keywords

Distal myopathy; Dysferlin; Muscle hypertrophy; Muscular dystrophy

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 2P; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; DISEASE COURSE; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; JEW; LEG DISEASE; MALE; MIYOSHI MYOPATHY; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; ONSET AGE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0034122879     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/123.6.1229     Document Type: Article

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