The limb-girdle muscular dystrophies: Genetic and phenotypic definition of a disputed entity

Neurology

Volumn 60, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1230-1231

  Wicklund, Matthew P ^a   Hilton Jones, David ^b  

^a WILFORD HALL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b RADCLIFFE INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALPAIN; CAVEOLIN; CREATINE KINASE; DYSFERLIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; SARCOGLYCAN;

AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DNA DETERMINATION; EDITORIAL; ENZYME DEFECT; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LIMB GIRDLE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; MUSCLE BIOPSY; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSIVE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY;

EID: 0037461314     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.60.8.1230     Document Type: Editorial

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