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Linkage of malignant hyperthermia and hyperkalemic periodic paralysis to the adult skeletal muscle sodium channel (SCN4A) gene in a large pedigree.
American journal of medical genetics - 26 Feb 1998
Moslehi R, Langlois S, Yam I, Friedman J M
Abstract excerpt
Hyperkalemic periodic paralysis (HPP) is caused by mutations of the adult skeletal muscle sodium channel (SCN4A) gene on chromosome 17. Malignant hyperthermia (MH) is a genetically heterogeneous autosomal-dominant disorder occurring in association with various neuromuscular diseases or without other apparent abnormalities. In some families, MH is associated with mutations of a calcium release channel (RYR1) gene...
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