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Ethnicity and myotonic dystrophy: a possible explanation for its absence in sub-Saharan Africa.

Annals of human genetics - 1 Jan 1996

Goldman A, Ramsay M, Jenkins T

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The CTG trinucleotide repeat, in the myotonic dystrophy (DM) myotonin protein kinase gene, was studied by PCR analysis in a total of 246 unrelated South African Bantu-speaking Negroids, 116 San and 27 Pygmies. The size and distribution of the CTG repeat were determined and showed that the alleles ranged in length from 5 to 22 repeats. The most common CTG repeat is 5 (25% of chromosomes) in the South African...

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PMID: 8835099
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-1809.1996.tb01172.x

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