Coats syndrome in facioscapulohumeral dystrophy type 1: Frequency and D4Z4 contraction size

Neurology

Volumn 80, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 1247-1250

  Statland, Jeffrey M ^a   Sacconi, Sabrina ^b   Farmakidis, Constantine ^c   Donlin Smith, Colleen M ^a   Chung, Mina ^a   Tawil, Rabi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b CENTRE HOSPITALIER UNIVERSITAIRE DE NICE   (France)

^c ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME NUMBER; EXUDATIVE RETINITIS; EYE EXAMINATION; FACIOSCAPULOHUMERAL MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; FACIOSCAPULOHUMERAL MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY TYPE 1; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ADULT; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 4; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHIES; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY, FACIOSCAPULOHUMERAL; MUTATION; REGISTRIES; RETINAL TELANGIECTASIS; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES;

EID: 84876216401     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e3182897116     Document Type: Review

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