Molecular Diagnosis of Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy in Patients Clinically Suspected of FSHD Using Optical Genome Mapping

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Background and Objectives Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) represents the third most common muscular dystrophy in the general population and is characterized by progressive and often asymmetric muscle weakness of the face, upper extremities, arms, lower leg, and hip girdle. In FSHD type 1, contraction of the number of D4Z4 repeats to 1–10 on the chromosome 4–permissive allele (4qA) results in...

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