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Population genetics of trinucleotide repeat polymorphisms.
Human molecular genetics - 1 Sept 1995
Watkins W S, Bamshad M, Jorde L B
Abstract excerpt
Trinucleotide repeats at five disease loci (DM, DRPLA, HD, SBMA and SCA1) were surveyed in phenotypically normal individuals from three continental populations. This is the first analysis to examine the population dynamics of these five disease-related trinucleotide repeats in the same individuals from worldwide populations. Roughly half of all alleles observed at each locus are shared between all continental...
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