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Genotype-phenotype comparison of the Swiss malignant hyperthermia population.
Human mutation - 1 Oct 2001
Girard T, Urwyler A, Censier K, Mueller C R, Zorzato F, Treves S
Abstract excerpt
Malignant hyperthermia (MH) is a potentially lethal pharmacogenetic disease, triggered by inhalative anesthetics or depolarizing muscle relaxants in genetically predisposed individuals. Linkage analysis have revealed MH to be a heterogenetic disease with about 50% of MH families linked to the locus of the ryanodine receptor calcium channel (RYR1). We investigated the frequency of the 23 published MH linked RYR1...
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