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Genotype-phenotype correlation and therapeutic rationale in hyperkalemic periodic paralysis.
Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics - 1 Apr 2007
Jurkat-Rott Karin, Lehmann-Horn Frank
Abstract excerpt
Familial hyperkalemic periodic paralysis (PP) is a dominantly inherited muscle disease characterized by attacks of flaccid weakness and intermittent myotonia. Some patients experience muscle stiffness that is aggravated by cold and exercise, bordering on the diagnosis of paramyotonia congenita. Hyperkalemic PP and paramyotonia congenita are allelic diseases caused by gain-of-function mutations of the skeletal...
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