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Muscle, Connective Tissue, and Neonatal Disorders

Muscle, Connective Tissue, and Neonatal Disorders

Copyright: © 2019 |Pages: 43
ISBN13: 9781522580669|ISBN10: 1522580662|EISBN13: 9781522580676
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-8066-9.ch017
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Oscar J. Wambuguh. "Muscle, Connective Tissue, and Neonatal Disorders." Examining the Causal Relationship Between Genes, Epigenetics, and Human Health, IGI Global, 2019, pp.425-467. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-8066-9.ch017

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O. Wambuguh (2019). Muscle, Connective Tissue, and Neonatal Disorders. IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-8066-9.ch017

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Oscar J. Wambuguh. "Muscle, Connective Tissue, and Neonatal Disorders." In Examining the Causal Relationship Between Genes, Epigenetics, and Human Health. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2019. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-8066-9.ch017

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Abstract

The skeleton provides the framework and anchor points against which muscles, attached via tendons, can exert force. Three types of cells are involved in making bone: osteoblasts, osteoclasts, and cartilage. The human muscle system is made up of three types of muscle tissue: skeletal, cardiac, and smooth. The neonate period of life is the first 4 weeks after the birth of an infant. This chapter presents 11 genetic disorders that affect muscles, connective tissue, and newborns. These include achondroplasia, Charcot-Marie tooth syndrome, Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, Ellis-Van Creveld syndrome, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Marfan syndrome, fibrodysplasia ossificans progressive, myotonic dystrophy, Angelman syndrome, Prader-Willi syndrome, fragile-X syndrome, and Waardenburg syndrome.

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