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Brain, Vol. 122, No. 4, 790, April 1999
© 1999 Oxford University Press

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NEUROMUSCULAR DISORDERS: CLINICAL AND MOLECULAR GENETICS.

Edited by Alan E. H. Emery. 1998. Pp. 563. Chichester: John Wiley and Sons Limited. Price £75.00. ISBN 0-471-9781-75..

B. R. F. Lecky

The Walton Centre For Neurology and Neurosurgery, Liverpool, UK

Inherited neuromuscular disorders, as a group, are relatively common and have a prevalence of about one in 3000, representing a significant burden of chronic neurologic disability. Some, such as HMSN (hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy) and myotonic dystrophy with a prevalence of 1 : 2500 and 1 : 8500 respectively, are common clinical conditions seen by almost all clinical neurologists. Many of these disorders were described in the nineteenth century, or earlier, and many were . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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