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A patient with 2 different repeat expansion mutations.
Archives of neurology - 1 Aug 2000
Nokelainen P, Heiskala H, Lehesjoki A E, Kaski M
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Many inherited progressive encephalopathies have a poor outcome, and some are caused by repeat expansion mutations. How would the presence of 2 different expansion mutations affect the phenotype? OBJECTIVE: To describe a patient who has 2 distinct, rare genetic disorders: myotonic dystrophy (DM, OMIM 160900) and progressive myoclonus epilepsy of the Unverricht-Lundborg type (EPM1, OMIM 254800). Both...
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