Molecular diagnosis in LGMD2A: mutation analysis or protein testing?

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Published in Hum Mutat on July 01, 2004

Authors

M Fanin1, L Fulizio, A C Nascimbeni, M Spinazzi, G Piluso, V M Ventriglia, G Ruzza, G Siciliano, C P Trevisan, L Politano, V Nigro, C Angelini

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Neurosciences, University of Padova, Italy. marina.fanin@unipd.it

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