Mild congenital muscular dystrophy in two patients with an internally deleted laminin α2-chain

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 747-752

  Allamand, Valérie ^a   Sunada, Yoshihide ^a   Salih, Mustafa A M ^b   Straub, Volker ^a   Ozo, C O ^c   Al Turaiki, M H S ^d   Akbar, Maksood ^d   Kolo, Timo ^e   Colognato, Holly ^f   Zhang, Xu ^g,h   Sorokin, Lydia M ⁱ   Yurchenco, Peter D ^f   Tryggvason, Karl ^g,h   Campbell, Kevin P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^d Jt Ctr Res Prosthet Orthotics R   (Saudi Arabia)

^e KING FAHAD NATIONAL GUARD HOSPITAL   (Saudi Arabia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

^g KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^h UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYSTROPHIN; LAMININ;

ALPHA CHAIN; ARTICLE; BECKER MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; CASE REPORT; CONSANGUINITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; PHENOTYPE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RNA SPLICING;

IVA;

EID: 8244233831     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/6.5.747     Document Type: Article

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