Correlation between cardiac involvement and CTG repeat amplification in myotonic dystrophy type 1

Acta Myologica

Volumn 22, Issue MAY, 2003, Pages 26-27

  Rakocevic Stojanovic, Vidosava ^a,b   Savic D ^c   Pavlovic S ^a   Lavrnic D ^a   Romac, S ^c   Apostolski, S ^a  

^a CLINICAL CENTER OF SERBIA   (Serbia)

^b Institute of Neurology   (Serbia)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Cardiac disorders; CTG trinucleotide repeats; Myotonic dystrophy type 1

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL FEATURE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DNA EXTRACTION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HEART DISEASE; HIS BUNDLE ELECTROGRAM; HUMAN; LETTER; M MODE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; ONSET AGE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0041589612     PISSN: 11282460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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