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Edoardo Malfatti1, Soledad Monges2, Vilma-Lotta Lehtokari3

  • 1Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, INSERM UMRS974, CNRS FRE3617, Center for Research in Myology, GH Pitié-Salpêtrière, 47 Boulevard de l'hôpital, 75013 Paris, France; Centre de Référence de Pathologie Neuromusculaire Paris-Est, Institut de Myologie, GHU La Pitié-Salpêtrière, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France.

European Journal of Medical Genetics
|September 26, 2015
PubMed
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Keywords:
Congenital myopathiesCore-rod myopathiesDistal myopathiesFoot dropNebulin

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