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Genotype-phenotype correlation in myotonic dystrophy.
Clinical genetics - 1 Jan 1998
Gharehbaghi-Schnell E B, Finsterer J, Korschineck I, Mamoli B, Binder B R
Abstract excerpt
Myotonic dystrophy (DM) is caused by a mutation in the length of a trinucleotide (CTG) repeat in the 3' untranslated region of the myotonin protein kinase gene located on chromosome 19q13.3. The normal gene has between 5 and 36 CTG trinucleotide repeats, whereas minimally affected individuals have 50 copies and severely affected DM-patients have several thousands of such repeats. Since no information on a...
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