Rippling muscle disease: Evidence for phenotypic and genetic heterogeneity

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 340-344

  So, Yuen T ^a   Zu, Lan ^b   Barraza, Carlos ^b   Figueroa, Karla P ^b   Pulst, Stefan M ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Contracture; Muscle cramps; Myopathy; Myotonia; Rippling muscle disease

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; CATTLE; CHROMOSOME 1Q; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; FAMILY STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE DISEASE; MUSCLE STIFFNESS; MYALGIA; MYOTONIA; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 1; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULAR DISEASES; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 0035117623     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-4598(200103)24:3<340::AID-MUS1003>3.0.CO;2-X     Document Type: Article

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