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Mapping of a further malignant hyperthermia susceptibility locus to chromosome 3q13.1.
American journal of human genetics - 1 Mar 1995
Sudbrak R, Procaccio V, Klausnitzer M, Curran J L, Monsieurs K, van Broeckhoven C, Ellis R, Heyetens L, Hartung E J, Kozak-Ribbens G
Abstract excerpt
Malignant hyperthermia (MH) is a potentially lethal pharmacogenetic disease for which MH susceptibility (MHS) is transmitted as an autosomal dominant trait. A potentially life-threatening MH crisis is triggered by exposure to commonly used inhalational anesthetics and depolarizing muscle relaxants. The first malignant hyperthermia susceptibility locus (MHS1) was identified on human chromosome 19q13.1, and...
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