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Muscle-eye-brain disease and Fukuyama type congenital muscular dystrophy are not allelic.
Neuromuscular disorders : NMD - 1 May 1995
Ranta S, Pihko H, Santavuori P, Tahvanainen E, de la Chapelle A
Abstract excerpt
Muscle-Eye-Brain disease (MEB) and Fukuyama type congenital muscular dystrophy (FCMD) are clinically similar autosomal recessive diseases, characterized by congenital muscular dystrophy and severe mental retardation, raising the possibility that they might be caused by mutations of the same gene. Recently FCMD was localized to chromosome 9q31-33 by linkage. We performed a linkage study in seven Finnish MEB...
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