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A case of paternally inherited congenital myotonic dystrophy.
Journal of medical genetics - 1 May 1994
Nakagawa M, Yamada H, Higuchi I, Kaminishi Y, Miki T, Johnson K, Osame M
Abstract excerpt
We report two sisters with congenital myotonic dystrophy (CDM) born to a normal mother and an affected father. The congenitally affected daughters had symptoms from birth. The age of onset of DM in the father was 39 years. Analysis of the CTG trinucleotide expansion in this family showed increase in the repeat length with increasing severity, with the smallest expansion in the grandfather and the largest...
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