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Clinical case report atypical myopathy in a young girl with 91 CTG repeats in DM1 locus and a positive DM1 family history.
The International journal of neuroscience - 1 Dec 2006
Savić Dusanka, Keckarević Dusan, Branković-Srećković Vesna, Apostolski Slobodan, Todorović Slobodanka, Romac Stanka
Abstract excerpt
Myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) is an autosomal dominant inheritable disease associated with an expansion of CTG repeats in the 3' UTR of the DMPK gene. The subject is an 11-year-old girl with atypical myopathy. Because the proband's family has a positive DM1 history, a molecular-genetic analysis for DM1 was performed. This study showed that proband had a small DMPK expansion (91 CTG repeats) although the...
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