Accelerated breakdown of immunoglobulin G (IgG) in myotonic dystrophy: a hereditary error of immunoglobulin catabolism.
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Accelerated breakdown of immunoglobulin G (IgG) in myotonic dystrophy: a hereditary error of immunoglobulin catabolism.
Myotonic dystrophy is a hereditary progressive muscular abnormality with dominant transmittance that was first proposed as a separate entity by Batten and Gibb (1) and by Steinert (2) in 1909. The muscular abnormality that is the dominant feature of the disease is characterized by weakness, wasting, and myotonia, especially of the facial, neck, and distal musculature. Other abnormalities freque...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical Investigation
سال: 1966
ISSN: 0021-9738
DOI: 10.1172/jci105346