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[DNA-diagnosis of bulbospinal muscular atrophy (Kennedy's disease)].
Zhurnal nevrologii i psikhiatrii imeni S.S. Korsakova - 1 Jan 1997
Malygina N A, Kazakov A E, Dubchak L V
Abstract excerpt
Bulbospinal muscular atrophy--a rare disease with X-linked recessive type of inheritance. It is caused by expansion of trinucleotide repetitions in the gene of androgenic receptor (AR). We elaborated a method of DNA-testing with usage of nonradioactive registration of mutant alleles of AR gene. DNA-diagnosis was performed in 16 patients with clinical pattern of bulbospinal muscular atrophy and diagnosis was...
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