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Malignant hyperthermia--a large kindred linked to the RYR1 gene.
Anaesthesia - 1 Jan 1996
Wallace A J, Wooldridge W, Kingston H M, Harrison M J, Ellis F R, Ford P M
Abstract excerpt
Malignant hyperthermia susceptibility is genetically heterogeneous. The ryanodine receptor gene on the long arm of chromosome 19 represents an important candidate gene but not all families with malignant hyperthermia demonstrate ryanodine receptor mutations or linkage to this region of 19q. Linkage to chromosome 17 in the region of the adult muscle sodium channel alpha subunit gene has been suggested in some...
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