Long-range restriction map around the Duchenne muscular dystrophy gene.

doi:10.1038/324582a0

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Long-range restriction map around the Duchenne muscular dystrophy gene.

Nature - 1 Jan 2000

Burmeister M, Lehrach H

Abstract excerpt

Duchenne muscular dystrophy is an X-linked recessive disease affecting about 1 in 4,000 newborn boys. As in many other inherited diseases, the biochemical basis of the condition is unknown, and as yet there is no effective treatment. Translocations, deletions and other mutations leading to the DM...

Topics

Chromosome Deletion
Chromosome Mapping
Cytidine Monophosphate
DNA
DNA Restriction Enzymes
Dinucleoside Phosphates
Genes
Genetic Linkage
Guanosine
Humans
Methylation
Muscular Dystrophies
Nucleic Acid Hybridization
Phenotype
Translocation, Genetic
X Chromosome

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