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Spinocerebellar ataxias: an example of the challenges associated with genetic databases for dynamic mutations.
Human mutation - 1 Sept 2012
Martindale Joanne E, Seneca Sara, Wieczorek Stefan, Sequeiros Jorge
Abstract excerpt
Locus-specific databases are an important source of information for diagnostic laboratories and a valued means of improving quality of genetic testing. Although increasingly frequent, databases for oligonucleotide repeat expansions are still scarce, due to factors that make them different and the building of databases much more difficult. Definition of what constitutes "the repeat" to measure is not a simple...
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