Presymptomatic diagnosis of myotonic dystrophy.
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Presymptomatic diagnosis of myotonic dystrophy.
The discovery of an expanded (CTG)n repeat sequence in myotonic dystrophy (DM) has greatly improved our ability to detect DM gene carriers who have few or none of the classical signs of this disorder. We report here our experience with two such groups of gene carriers. We used a PCR based protocol that should be especially sensitive to small increases in CTG triplet number which might escape de...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Medical Genetics
سال: 1992
ISSN: 1468-6244
DOI: 10.1136/jmg.29.11.780