Myotonia genetics

Becker PE 1971 Genetic approaches to the nosology of muscular disease myotonias and similar diseases. Birth Defects Orig Artie Ser 7 52—62... 

George AL Jr, Sloan Brown K, Fenichel GM, Mitchell GA, Spiegel R, Pascuzzi RM 1994 Nonsense and missense mutations of the muscle chloride channel gene in patients with myotonia congenita. Hum Mol Genet 3 2071—2072... 

A somewhat similar situation is seen in the ichthyosis which may result from the administration of hypocholesterolaemic drugs such as triparanol and diazacholesteroP . Other complications of these agents include cataract and myotonia, and the syndrome they produce may closely resemble the genetically... 

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