Mutation in FAM134B causing hereditary sensory neuropathy with spasticity in a Turkish family

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 774-775

  Ilgaz Aydinlar, Elif ^a   Rolfs, Arndt ^b   Serteser, Mustafa ^a   Parman, Yesim ^c  

^a ACIBADEM UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^c ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CASE REPORT; DIZZINESS; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; FAM134B GENE; FAMILY; FEMALE; FOOT ULCER; GENE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HYPERHIDROSIS; HYPERKERATOSIS; HYPESTHESIA; INFECTION; LETTER; LIMB WEAKNESS; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MYELINATED NERVE; NERVE BIOPSY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPATHY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPASTIC GAIT; SPASTICITY; SURAL NERVE; URGE INCONTINENCE; VIBRATION SENSE; WALKING DIFFICULTY;

ADULT; CONSANGUINITY; FEMALE; HEREDITARY SENSORY AND AUTONOMIC NEUROPATHIES; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE SPASTICITY; MUTATION; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; PEDIGREE; SIBLINGS; TURKEY;

EID: 84901456753     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.24145     Document Type: Letter

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