Transient, recurrent, white matter lesions in X-linked Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease with novel connexin 32 mutation

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 605-609

  Hanemann, C Oliver ^a   Bergmann, Carsten ^b   Senderek, Jan ^b   Zerres, Klaus ^b   Sperfeld, Ann Dorte ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 32;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DEMYELINATING DISEASE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; HEREDITARY MOTOR SENSORY NEUROPATHY; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERIPHERAL NERVE; POLYNEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECURRENT DISEASE; WHITE MATTER; X CHROMOSOME LINKED DISORDER;

ADULT; BRAIN; CHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH DISEASE; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, X; CONNEXINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MUTATION; PEDIGREE; RECURRENCE;

EID: 0344608882     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.60.4.605     Document Type: Article

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