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Genotype and phenotype study of 34 Spanish patients diagnosed with oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy.
Journal of neurology - 1 Aug 2012
Tondo Mireia, Gámez Josep, Gutiérrez-Rivas Eduardo, Medel-Jiménez Ramón, Martorell Loreto
Abstract excerpt
Oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy is an autosomal dominant adult-onset disease with several clinical features. The genetic cause is an expanded (GCN)n mutation coding for polyalanine. Severity and the age of onset are variable and may depend on the size of the unstable triplet. Our objectives were to correlate the genotypic and phenotypic features in 34 affected patients, and to complete the molecular analysis...
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