Correlation between the incidence of myotonic dystrophy in different groups in Israel and the number of CTG trinucleotide repeats in the myotonin gene

American Journal of Medical Genetics

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 156-159

  Mor Cohen, Ronit ^a,b   Magal, Nurit ^a,b   Gadoth, Nathan ^a,b   Shohat, Tamar ^a,b   Shohat, Mordechai ^a,b  

^a RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

CTG repeats; Myotonic dystrophy; Yemenite Jews

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORRELATION FUNCTION; HUMAN; ISRAEL; JEW; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AFRICA, NORTHERN; ALLELES; ARABS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; DNA; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; ISRAEL; JEWS; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PREGNANCY; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PROTEINS; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS; YEMEN;

EID: 0030741298     PISSN: 01487299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8628(19970808)71:2<156::AID-AJMG7>3.0.CO;2-W     Document Type: Article

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