The age of single-gene neurological disorders is not dead

Brain

Volumn 133, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1865-1868

  Chinnery, Patrick F ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CONNECTIN;

AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; DISTAL MYOPATHY; GENE MAPPING; HUMAN; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MYOPATHY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NOTE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 77954378548     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awq161     Document Type: Note

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