Leukocyte CTG repeat length correlates with severity of myotonia in myotonic dystrophy type 1

Neurology

Volumn 62, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1081-1089

  Logigian, E L ^a   Moxley IV, R T ^a   Blood, C L ^a   Barbieri, C A ^a   Martens, W B ^a   Wiegner, A W ^b   Thornton, C A ^a   Moxley III, R T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORIDE CHANNEL; MEXILETINE; RNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE; MALE; MUSCLE RELAXATION; MUSCLE TETANIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE TWITCH; MYOTONIA; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; NERVE STIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; ULNAR NERVE;

EID: 1842476000     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.WNL.0000118206.49652.A3     Document Type: Article

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