Screening of dystrophin gene deletions in Egyptian patients with DMD/BMD muscular dystrophies

Disease Markers

Volumn 16, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 125-129

  Effat, Laila K ^a   El Harouni, Ashraf A ^a   Amr, Khalda S ^a   El Minisi, Tarik I ^b   Meguid, Nagwa Abdel ^a   El Awady, Mostafa ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Egypt)

^b AL AZHAR UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE; DNA; DYSTROPHIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BECKER MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; CHILD; DNA DETERMINATION; DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; EGYPT; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD;

EID: 0034437189     PISSN: 02780240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2000/437372     Document Type: Article

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