On Symptomatic Heterozygous Alpha-Sarcoglycan Gene Mutation Carriers

Annals of Neurology

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 674-678

  Fischer, Dirk ^a   Aurino, Stefania ^b   Nigro, Vincenzo ^b   Schröder, Rolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SARCOGLYCAN; SARCOGLYCAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; CHROMOSOME 17Q; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LIMB GIRDLE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOULDER GIRDLE;

BLOTTING, WESTERN; CHILD; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 17; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHIES; MUTATION, MISSENSE; PEDIGREE; SARCOGLYCANS;

EID: 0242384659     PISSN: 03645134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ana.10738     Document Type: Article

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