Mapping of the familial infantile myasthenia (congenital myasthenic syndrome type Ia) gene to chromosome 17p with evidence of genetic homogeneity

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 635-640

  Christodoulou, Kyproula ^a   Tsingis, Marios ^a   Deymeer, Feza ^b   Serdaroglu, Piraye ^b   Ozdemir, Coskun ^b   Al Shehab, Ahmad ^c   Bairactaris, Chrysostomos ^d   Mavromatis, Ioannis ^d   Mylonas, Ioannis ^d   Evoli, Amelia ^e   Kyriallis, Kyriacos ^a   Middleton, Lefkos T ^a  

^a CYPRUS INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGY AND GENETICS   (Cyprus)

^b ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c UNIVERSITY OF JORDAN   (Jordan)

^d ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^e CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; CHILD; CHROMOSOME 17P; CONSANGUINITY; EATON LAMBERT SYNDROME; FEMALE; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC LINKAGE; HAPLOTYPE; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARKER GENE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 17; CONSANGUINITY; FEMALE; HAPLOTYPES; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); LOD SCORE; MALE; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PEDIGREE; R-SNARE PROTEINS; TELOMERE;

EID: 8244240433     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/6.4.635     Document Type: Article

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