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Progressive external ophthalmoplegia as initial manifestation of sporadic late-onset nemaline myopathy

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Acknowledgments

We thank Dr. Alan Beggs, Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, for kindly providing the antibody against α-actinin 2. We further thank Petra Matylewski and Gabi Kluge for technical assistance.

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  1. Department of Neurology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Charitéplatz 1, 10117, Berlin, Germany

    Oliver Wengert & Andreas Meisel

  2. Department of Human Genetics, Julius-Maximilian University, Würzburg, Germany

    Wolfram Kress

  3. Department of Human Genetics, Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany

    Gabriele Dekomien

  4. Department of Neurology, University of Regensburg, Bezirksklinikum, Universitätstr. 84, 93053, Regensburg, Germany

    Klemens Angstwurm

  5. Department of Neuropathology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Charitéplatz 1, 10117, Berlin, Germany

    Frank L. Heppner, Hans-Hilmar Goebel & Werner Stenzel

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Wengert, O., Meisel, A., Kress, W. et al. Progressive external ophthalmoplegia as initial manifestation of sporadic late-onset nemaline myopathy. J Neurol 258, 915–917 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-010-5819-6

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