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Episodic weakness and Charcot-marie-tooth disease due to a mitochondrial MT-ATP6 mutation.
Muscle & nerve - 1 Jun 2017
Panosyan Francis B, Tawil Rabi, Herrmann David N
Abstract excerpt
INTRODUCTION: Episodic muscle weakness is the hallmark of a heterogeneous group of disorders known as periodic paralysis. A majority are due to single nucleotide mutations causing membrane depolarization. METHODS: We report 2 family members with chronic, slowly progressive, distal axonal neuropathy, or Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 2 (CMT2) and episodic weakness resembling periodic paralysis. RESULTS: Next...
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