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Gene locus for autosomal recessive distal myopathy with rimmed vacuoles maps to chromosome 9.
Annals of neurology - 1 Apr 1997
Ikeuchi T, Asaka T, Saito M, Tanaka H, Higuchi S, Tanaka K, Saida K, Uyama E, Mizusawa H, Fukuhara N, Nonaka I, Takamori M, Tsuji S
Abstract excerpt
Distal myopathy with rimmed vacuoles is an autosomal recessive muscular disorder, characterized clinically by weakness of the distal muscles in the lower limbs in early adulthood. Recently, the gene locus for familial vacuolar myopathy with autosomal recessive inheritance (hereditary inclusion body myopathy) was mapped to chromosome 9 by genome-wide linkage analysis of nine Persian-Jewish families. Since both...
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