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Characteristics of dynamic mutation in Japanese myotonic dystrophy.
The Japanese journal of human genetics - 1 Sept 1994
Yamagata H, Miki T, Yamanaka N, Takemoto Y, Kanda F, Takahashi K, Inui T, Kinoshita M, Nakagawa M, Higuchi I
Abstract excerpt
To study the characteristics, if any, of unstable CTG repeat sequence in Japanese myotonic dystrophy (DM), we analyzed DNA from 351 at risk individuals (including affected and non-affected carriers and their descendants) from 105 families in Japan. A total of 93 DM families (196 affected and 116 unaffected individuals), including 84 DM parent-child pairs (44 father-child and 40 mother-child pairs), were examined,...
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