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Phenotypic variability in a Chinese family with rimmed vacuolar distal myopathy.
Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry - 1 May 2005
Ro L-S, Lee-Chen G-J, Wu Y-R, Lee M, Hsu P-Y, Chen C-M
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: UDP-N-acetylglucosamine 2-epimerase/N-acetylmannosamine kinase (GNE) gene mutations have been found in patients with distal myopathy with rimmed vacuoles (DMRV). It is not clear how the same GNE gene mutations can result in different phenotypes in the same family with DMRV. METHODS: The clinical, neurophysiological, histopathological, and genetic characteristics of two patients with DMRV from a...
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