Absence of myotonic dystrophy in southern African Negroids is associated with a significantly lower number of CTG trinucleotide repeats.

Myotonic dystrophy (DM) is associated with an increased number of CTG repeats in the 3' untranslated region of the myotonin gene. Because DM has not been observed in southern African Negroids, a study of the CTG repeat polymorphism in this population was undertake. A total of 210 unrelated subj...

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Main Authors: Goldman, A, Ramsay, M, Jenkins, T
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 1994
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Research Article
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1049596/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8151635
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