Clinical and molecular characterization of patients with limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 2I

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 62, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1894-1899

  Boito, Chiara A ^a   Melacini, Paola ^a   Vianello, Andrea ^b   Prandini, Paola ^a   Gavassini, Bruno F ^a   Bagattin, Alessia ^a   Siciliano, Gabriele ^c   Angelini, Corrado ^a   Pegoraro, Elena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LIMB GIRDLE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; MALE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; CARDIOMYOPATHY, DILATED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DNA; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DYSTROGLYCANS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHIES, LIMB-GIRDLE; MUTATION; MUTATION, MISSENSE; PHENOTYPE; PROTEINS; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 28944454254     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: 15383687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.62.12.1894     Document Type: Article

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