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Myotonic dystrophy: molecular windows on a complex etiology.
Nucleic acids research - 15 Mar 1998
Korade-Mirnics Z, Babitzke P, Hoffman E
Abstract excerpt
Myotonic dystrophy (DM) is the most common form of adult onset muscular dystrophy, with an incidence of approximately 1 in 8500 adults. DM is caused by an expanded number of trinucleotide repeats in the 3'-untranslated region (UTR) of a cAMP-dependent protein kinase (DM protein kinase, DMPK). Although a large number of transgenic animals have been generated with different gene constructions and knock-outs, none...
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