Useful links

Child muscle weakness: steps to identify paediatric muscle weakness and signs of neuromuscular disease

Orphanet: information about a disease; search by clinical features or gene

NCBI Gene Tests/GeneReviews: providing current, authoritative information on genetic testing and its use in diagnosis, management, and genetic counseling

Gene Table of Neuromuscular Disorders: Through the World Muscle Society, Professor Jean Claude Kaplan from Paris has created a comprehensive online gene table on practically all the neuromuscular disorders. You can search this site for disease groups, diseases, genes, chromosomes, gene products and inheritance.

OMIM: OMIM is a comprehensive, authoritative, and timely compendium of human genes and genetic phenotypes. The full-text, referenced overviews in OMIM contain information on all known mendelian disorders and over 12,000 genes. OMIM focuses on the relationship between phenotype and genotype. It is updated daily, and the entries contain copious links to other genetics resources.

Muscular dystrophy information: overview of muscular dystrophies and additional useful links.

Wikigenes: gene search and collaborative publishing

The Royal College of Pathologists of Australia (RCPA): RCPA Catalogue of Genetic Tests and Laboratories

DMD web portal: expert information on Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy provided by leading experts in Neurology, Cardiology, Respiratory, Physyiotherapy, Genetics, in fact all disciplines relating to best practice, evidence based information available.