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Genetic fine mapping of the Miyoshi myopathy locus and exclusion of eight candidate genes.
Neurogenetics - 1 Mar 1998
Bejaoui K, Liu J, McKenna-Yasek D, Le Paslier D, Bossie K, Gilligan D M, Brown R H
Abstract excerpt
Miyoshi myopathy (MM) is an early adult-onset, autosomal recessive disorder characterized by weakness and muscular atrophy starting in the distal muscles. The disease locus has been previously mapped by linkage analysis to chromosome 2p using the microsatellite marker D2S291. Initial haplotype analysis of markers in families from three different origins (North American, Japanese, and Tunisian) suggested that the...
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