Severe childhood autosomal recessive muscular dystrophy, mental subnormality and chorea

Neurology India

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 293-295

  Khadilkar, Satish ^a,d   Menezes, Krishe ^a   Singh, Rakesh ^b   Hegde, Madhuri ^c  

^a SIR J J GROUP OF HOSPITALS   (India)

^b Baylor College of Medicine ^*

^c BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d BOMBAY HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

Chorea; Mental subnormality; Muscular dystrophy

Indexed keywords

DYSTROPHIN; SARCOGLYCAN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CHOREA; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EXON; GENE DELETION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHY; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MENTAL DISEASE; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; PHENOTYPE; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSORY ANALYSIS;

EID: 33748427502     PISSN: 00283886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0028-3886.27157     Document Type: Article

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