Partial lipodystrophy associated with muscular dystrophy of unknown genetic origin

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 928-930

  Carboni, Nicola ^a   Brancati, Francesco ^b   Cocco, Eleonora ^a   Solla, Elisabetta ^a   D'Apice, Maria R ^c   Mateddu, Anna ^a   Mcintyre, Adam ^d   Fadda, Elisabetta ^a   Mura, Marco ^e   Lattanzi, Giovanna ^f   Piras, Rachele ^a   Maioli, Maria A ^a   Marrosu, Giovanni ^a   Novelli, Giuseppe ^c   Marrosu, Maria G ^a   Hegele, Robert A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^b CASA SOLLIEVO DELLA SOFFERENZA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^d ROBARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^e Department of Radiology Policlinic of Monserrato ^*  (Italy)

^f CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; CASE REPORT; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; EXON; FATTY LIVER; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; INTRON; KARYOTYPING; LEG MUSCLE; LIPID STORAGE; LIPODYSTROPHY; LIPOMATOSIS; MENSTRUAL IRREGULARITY; MULTIPLEX LIGATION DEPENDENT PROBE AMPLIFICATION; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MUSCLE METABOLISM; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROADIPOCYTE; SIBLING; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SKIN FIBROBLAST; SOLEUS MUSCLE; THIGH;

BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; KARYOTYPE; LIPODYSTROPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHIES; SIBLINGS;

EID: 84900482651     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.24157     Document Type: Article

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