Congenital myopathy with nemaline rods and cap structures caused by a mutation in the β-tropomyosin gene (TPM2)

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 64, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1334-1338

  Tajsharghi, Homa ^a   Ohlsson, Monica ^a   Lindberg, Christopher ^a   Oldfors, Anders ^a  

^a SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA TROPOMYOSIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA; TROPOMYOSIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAUGHTER; FEMALE; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MISSENSE MUTATION; MOTHER; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MYOPATHY; NEMALINE MYOPATHY; PEDIGREE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TPM2 GENE;

ADULT; AGED; BLEPHAROPTOSIS; FACIAL ASYMMETRY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUTATION, MISSENSE; MYOPATHIES, NEMALINE; PALATE; TROPOMYOSIN;

EID: 34548650911     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: 15383687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.64.9.1334     Document Type: Article

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