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Myotonic dystrophy: absence of CTG enlarged transcript in congenital forms, and low expression of the normal allele.
Human molecular genetics - 1 Aug 1993
Hofmann-Radvanyi H, Lavedan C, Rabès J P, Savoy D, Duros C, Johnson K, Junien C
Abstract excerpt
Myotonic dystrophy (DM) is an autosomal dominant neuromuscular disease. The mutation has been identified as an unstable trinucleotide CTG repeat in a sequence encoding a putative cAMP-dependent protein kinase. The CTG repeat varies in length between affected siblings, and generally increases through generations in parallel with increasing severity of the disease. Congenital myotonic dystrophy, which represents...
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