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Mutation in the S4 segment of the adult skeletal sodium channel gene in an Italian paramyotonia congenita (PC) family.
Italian journal of neurological sciences - 1 Dec 1994
Sansone V, Rotondo G, Ptacek L J, Meola G
Abstract excerpt
The periodic paralyses are a group of autosomal dominant muscle diseases sharing the common feature of episodic stiffness and weakness, usually occurring with muscle cooling (as in the case of paramyotonia congenita, PC phenotype) or changes in extracellular K+ levels resulting from various precipitating factors (hyperkalemic periodic paralysis, HYPP and hypokalemic periodic paralysis, HypoPP). It is now known...
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