Paternal inheritance or different mutations in maternally related patients occur in about 3% of duchenne familial cases

American Journal of Medical Genetics

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 361-365

  Zatz, Mayana ^a,b   Sumita, Denilce ^a   Campiotto, Simone ^a   Canovas, Marta ^a   Cerqueira, Antonia ^a   Vainzof, Mariz ^a   Passos Bueno, Maria Rita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Hospital Universitario   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Different mutations in related patients; Duchenne dystrophy; Paternal inheritance; Transposable elements

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE; DNA; DYSTROPHIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FATHER; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC COUNSELING; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; X CHROMOSOME LINKED DISORDER;

EID: 0031928771     PISSN: 01487299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8628(19980724)78:4<361::AID-AJMG11>3.0.CO;2-G     Document Type: Article

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