[Recent progress, genetic diagnosis and its problem on congenital muscular dystrophies (Fukuyama and non-Fukuyama types)].

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[Recent progress, genetic diagnosis and its problem on congenital muscular dystrophies (Fukuyama and non-Fukuyama types)].

Rinsho shinkeigaku = Clinical neurology - 1 Dec 1995

Toda T

Abstract excerpt

Fukuyama type congenital muscular dystrophy (FCMD) is an autosomal recessive muscular dystrophy associated with an anomaly of the brain. We performed genetic linkage analyses using consanguineous FCMD families and localized the FCMD locus to chromosomes 9q31-33. We further defined the locus withi...

Topics

Alleles
Chromosomes, Human, Pair 6
Chromosomes, Human, Pair 9
Female
Humans
Linkage Disequilibrium
Male
Muscular Dystrophies
Mutation

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