Article
Single-amino-acid deletion in the RYR1 gene, associated with malignant hyperthermia susceptibility and unusual contraction phenotype.
American journal of human genetics - 1 Jul 2001
Sambuughin N, McWilliams S, de Bantel A, Sivakumar K, Nelson T E
Abstract excerpt
Malignant hyperthermia (MH) is an anesthetic-drug-induced, life-threatening hypermetabolic syndrome caused by abnormal calcium regulation in skeletal muscle. Often inherited as an autosomal dominant trait, MH has linkage to 30 different mutations in the RYR1 gene, which encodes a calcium-release-...
Read the complete abstract on PubMedTopics
Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.
