Anticipation in myotonic dystrophy: II. complex relationships between clinical findings and structure of the gct repeat

Neurology

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 1992, Pages 1877-1883

  Ashizawa, T ^a,b   Dubel, J R ^a,b   Dunne, P W ^a   Fu, Y H ^a   Pizzuti, A ^a   Caskey, C T ^a   Boerwinkle, E ^b   Perryman, M B ^a   Epstein, H F ^a   Hejtmancik, J F ^c  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^c NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DNA SEQUENCE; FAMILY STUDY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; ONSET AGE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; HAPLOTYPES; HUMAN; MALE; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; PEDIGREE; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.;

EID: 0026802316     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/wnl.42.10.1877     Document Type: Article

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