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Founder effect in spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA) in Scandinavia.
European journal of human genetics : EJHG - 1 Aug 2000
Lund A, Udd B, Juvonen V, Andersen P M, Cederquist K, Ronnevi L O, Sistonen P, Sörensen S A, Tranebjaerg L, Wallgren-Pettersson C, Savontaus M L
Abstract excerpt
We haplotyped 13 Finnish, 10 Swedish, 12 Danish and 2 Norwegian SBMA (spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy, Kennedy disease) families with a total of 45 patients and 7 carriers for 17 microsatellite markers spanning a 25.2 cM region around the androgen receptor gene on chromosome Xq11-q12 in search of a genetic founder effect. In addition, the haplotypes of 50 Finnish, 20 Danish and 22 Swedish control males were...
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