1. Muscle apoptosis in humans occurs in normal and denervated muscle, but not in myotonic dystrophy, dystrophinopathies or inflammatory disease

   • A. Migheli
   • T. Mongini
   • L. Palmucci

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 81 - 87

2. Confirmation of a second locus for CMT2 and evidence for additional genetic heterogeneity

   • M.A. Pericak-Vance
   • M.C. Speer
   • J.M. Vance

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 89 - 93

3. Locus heterogeneity, anticipation and reduction of the chromosome 2p minimal candidate region in autosomal dominant familial spastic paraplegia

   • W.K. Scott
   • P.C. Gaskell
   • M.A. Pericak-Vance

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 95 - 102

4. Characterization of the rat spinocerebellar ataxia type 3 gene

   • I. Schmitt
   • T. Brattig
   • O. Riess

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 103 - 112

5. A missense mutation in the SOD1 gene in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis from the Kii Peninsula and its vicinity, Japan

   • K. Kikugawa
   • R. Nakano
   • S. Tsuji

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 113 - 115

6. Mutations in the X-linked form of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease in the French population

   • P. Latour
   • N. Lévy
   • A. Vandenberghe

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 117 - 123

7. Two previously unrecognized splicing mutations of GCH1 in Dopa-responsive dystonia: exon skipping and one base insertion

   • Y. Weber
   • D. Steinberger
   • U. Müller

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 125 - 127

8. Homozygosity mapping of giant axonal neuropathy gene to chromosome 16q24.1

   • C.B. Hamida
   • L. Cavalier
   • F. Hentati

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 129 - 133

9. Emerin, deficiency of which causes Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy, is localized at the inner nuclear membrane

   • H. Yorifuji
   • Y. Tadano
   • K. Arahata

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 135 - 140

10. Molecular diagnosis of non-deletion SMA patients using quantitative PCR of SMN exon 7

    • C.F. Rochette
    • L.C. Surh
    • L.R. Simard

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 141 - 147

11. The thermolabile variant of methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) is not a major risk factor for neural tube defect in American Caucasians

    • M.C. Speer
    • G. Worley
    • The NTD Collaborative Group

    SHORT COMMUNICATION Pages: 149 - 150

12. Further exclusion of FSHD1B from the telomeric region of 10q

    • M.C. Speer
    • M.A. Pericak-Vance
    • J.R. Gilbert

    SHORT COMMUNICATION Pages: 151 - 152