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Instability of a premutation allele in homozygous patients with myotonic dystrophy type 1.
Annals of neurology - 1 Oct 2002
Abbruzzese Claudia, Costanzi Porrini Sandro, Mariani Bruno, Gould Fiona K, McAbney John P, Monckton Darren G, Ashizawa Tetsuo, Giacanelli Manlio
Abstract excerpt
Myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) is caused by the expansion of an unstable CTG repeat in the DMPK gene on chromosome 19q13.3. We present two siblings with DM1 who each inherited a premutation allele, (CTG)43, stably transmitted from the mother and a full-mutation allele, either (CTG)500 or (CTG)180, derived from a paternal protomutation allele, (CTG)52. Small-pool polymerase chain reaction analysis showed that the...
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