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Limb girdle myasthenia with digenic RAPSN and a novel disease gene AK9 mutations.
European journal of human genetics : EJHG - 1 Feb 2017
Lam Ching-Wan, Wong Ka-Sing, Leung Ho-Wan, Law Chun-Yiu
Abstract excerpt
Though dysfunction of neuromuscular junction (NMJ) is associated with congenital myasthenic syndrome (CMS), the proteins involved in neuromuscular transmission have not been completely identified. In this study, we aimed to identify a novel CMS gene in a consanguineous family with limb-girdle type CMS. Homozygosity mapping of the novel CMS gene was performed using high-density single-nucleotide polymorphism...
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