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Identification of heterozygous and homozygous individuals with the novel RYR1 mutation Cys35Arg in a large kindred.
Anesthesiology - 1 Mar 1997
Lynch P J, Krivosic-Horber R, Reyford H, Monnier N, Quane K, Adnet P, Haudecoeur G, Krivosic I, McCarthy T, Lunardi J
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Malignant hyperthermia (MH) is a potentially fatal, often autosomal dominant, disorder of skeletal muscle and is triggered in susceptible people by all commonly used inhalational anesthetics. In this article, the authors describe a malignant hyperthermia susceptible (MHS) kindred in which both parents of the proband are MHS and are first-degree cousins. Haplotype analysis in this kindred with...
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