Association of CTG repeats and the 1-kb Alu insertion/deletion polymorphism at the myotonin protein kinase gene in the Japanese population suggests a common Eurasian origin of the myotonic dystrophy mutation

Human Genetics

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 145-147

  Yamagata, Hidehisa ^a   Miki, Tetsuro ^a   Nakagawa, Masanori ^b   Johnson, Keith ^c   Deka, Ranjan ^d   Ogihara, Toshio ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN KINASE;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; EUROPE; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EUROPE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HUMANS; JAPAN; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MUTATION; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE DELETION; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS;

EID: 0030047887     PISSN: 03406717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02265255     Document Type: Article

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