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Validation of Optical Genome Mapping for the Molecular Diagnosis of Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy.
The Journal of molecular diagnostics : JMD - 1 Nov 2021
Stence Aaron A, Thomason Jon G, Pruessner Jonathan A, Sompallae Ramakrishna R, Snow Anthony N, Ma Deqin, Moore Steven A, Bossler Aaron D
Abstract excerpt
The molecular diagnosis of facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) relies on detecting contractions of the unique D4Z4 repeat array at the chromosome 4q35 locus in the presence of a permissive 4q35A haplotype. Long, intact DNA molecules are required for accurate sizing of D4Z4 repeats. We validated the use of optical genome mapping to determine size and haplotype of D4Z4 alleles for FSHD analysis. The...
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