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Rippling muscle disease in childhood.
Journal of child neurology - 1 Jul 2002
Schara Ulrike, Vorgerd Matthias, Popovic Nikola, Schoser Benedikt G H, Ricker Kenneth, Mortier Wilhelm
Abstract excerpt
Rippling muscle disease is a rare autosomal dominant disorder first described in 1975. Recently, it could be classified as a caveolinopathy; in European families, mutations in the caveolin-3 gene were revealed as causing this disease. Although clinical symptoms were almost all described in adulthood, we are now reporting clinical data of seven children with rippling muscle disease owing to mutations in the...
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