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A Comprehensive Triple-Repeat Primed PCR and a Long-Range PCR Agarose-Based Assay for Improved Genotyping of Guanine-Adenine-Adenine Repeats in Friedreich Ataxia.
The Journal of molecular diagnostics : JMD - 1 Aug 2022
Jama Mohamed, Margraf Rebecca L, Yu Ping, Reading N Scott, Bayrak-Toydemir Pinar
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Friedreich ataxia is a rare autosomal recessive, neuromuscular degenerative disease caused by an expansion of a trinucleotide [guanine-adenine-adenine (GAA)] repeat in intron 1 of the FXN gene. It is common in the White population, characterized by progressive gait and limb ataxia, lack of tendon reflexes in the legs, loss of position sense, and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Detection and genotyping of the...
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