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Proximal myotonic myopathy: evidence for anticipation in families with linkage to chromosome 3q.
Neurology - 8 Aug 2000
Schneider C, Ziegler A, Ricker K, Grimm T, Kress W, Reimers C D, Meinck H, Reiners K, Toyka K V
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: To investigate anticipation in proximal myotonic myopathy (PROMM). BACKGROUND: PROMM is a recently described autosomal dominantly inherited disorder similar to but distinct from myotonic dystrophy (DM). DM belongs to the group of inherited disorders with anticipation caused by an unstable trinucleotide repeat expansion. In PROMM, no mutation has been identified, although PROMM has recently been mapped...
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