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Lack of sodium channel mutation in an Italian family with paramyotonia congenita.
Neurology - 22 Oct 1999
Sampaolo S, Puca A A, Nigro V, Cappa V, Sannino V, Sanges G, Bonavita V, Di Iorio G
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: To conduct the genotype-phenotype correlation in a family in which several individuals share clinical and electrophysiologic features of paramyotonia congenita (PC). BACKGROUND: PC, hyperkalemic periodic paralysis (HyperPP), and potassium-aggravated myotonias form the group of hereditary sodium channelopathies. Each of these disorders is associated with different point mutations in SCN4A, the gene...
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