Hereditary nondystrophic myotonias and periodic paralyses.

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The hereditary disorders of muscle excitability are now recognized to be caused by defects in the genes encoding muscle ion channels. This led to a new classification of this disease group. The pathophysiology of these disorders has been elucidated on the molecular level to an extent that exceeds the understanding of the disease mechanisms of most other neuromuscular diseases. The seemingly minor variants of the...

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