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Sibship stability of genotype and phenotype in myotonic dystrophy.
Clinical genetics - 1 Sept 2002
Brisson D, Tremblay M, Prévost C, Laberge C, Puymirat J, Mathieu J
Abstract excerpt
Myotonic dystrophy (DM1) is caused by an unstable CTG repeat expansion. Despite the evidence of birth order effect in congenital DM1, the expansion's dynamics among sibships is still unknown. The objective of this study was to determine phenotype and CTG repeat size variability in DM1 sibships, and to investigate their predictive values. We compared 86 sib pairs for CTG repeat, 61 for age at onset and 89 for DM1...
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