161st ENMC International Workshop on nemaline myopathy and related disorders, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2008

Neuromuscular Disorders

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 300-305

  Laing, Nigel G ^a   Wallgren Pettersson, Carina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ALPHA ACTIN; CARDIAC ACTIN; COFILIN 2; MELPHALAN; NEBULIN; RYANODINE RECEPTOR 1; TROPOMYOSIN; TYROSINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACTA1 GENE; ARTHROGRYPOSIS; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONGENITAL FIBRE TYPE DISPROPORTION; CORE ROD MYOPATHY; DATA BASE; DENATURING HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; MISSENSE MUTATION; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MUSCLE DISEASE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MUTATOR GENE; MYOPATHY; NEMALINE MYOPATHY; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TISSUE CULTURE; TNNT1 GENE; TPM2 GENE; TPM3 GENE;

ANIMALS; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DATABASES, GENETIC; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENGLAND; GENE THERAPY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MYOPATHIES, NEMALINE; PHENOTYPE; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES;

EID: 63749107215     PISSN: 09608966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nmd.2009.02.002     Document Type: Article

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