No mutation in the KCNE3 potassium channel gene in Chinese thyrotoxic hypokalaemic periodic paralysis patients

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 109-112

  Tang, Nelson L S ^a,b   Chow, C C ^a   Ko, Gary T C ^c   Tai, Morris H L ^a   Kwok, Rachel ^a   Yao, X Q ^b   Cockram, Clive S ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b and Hong Kong Branch of CAS Center for Excellence in Animal Evolution and Genetics   (Hong Kong)

^c ALICE HO MIU LING NETHERSOLE HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; GENOTYPE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPOKALEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; TEACHING HOSPITAL; THYROID CRISIS; THYROTOXIC PERIODIC PARALYSIS;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; PARALYSES, FAMILIAL PERIODIC; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; POTASSIUM; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, VOLTAGE-GATED; TAIWAN;

EID: 3242681372     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2004.02079.x     Document Type: Article

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