Further evidence for a major ancient mutation underlying myotonic dystrophy from linkage disequilibrium studies in the Japanese population

Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 246-249

  Yamagata, Hidehisa ^a   Nakagawa, Masanori ^b   Johnson, Keith ^c   Miki, Tetsuro ^a  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CTG repeat; Haplotype A; Linkage disequilibrium; Multistep model; Myotonic dystrophy

Indexed keywords

DNA; PROTEIN KINASE;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; JAPAN; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALE; MUTATION; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID;

ATAXIA;

EID: 0031704375     PISSN: 14345161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s100380050082     Document Type: Article

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