Unique PABP2 mutations in 'Cajuns' suggest multiple founders of oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy in populations with French ancestry

American Journal of Medical Genetics

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 477-481

  Scacheri, Peter C ^a   Garcia, Carlos ^b   Hébert, Richard ^c   Hoffman, Eric P ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Professional Genealogist   (Canada)

^d CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Linkage analysis; Linkage disequilibrium; Oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy; Trinucleotide insertion mutation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FRANCE; GENE INSERTION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OCULOPHARYNGEAL MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; PEDIGREE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BASE SEQUENCE; CANADA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMANS; LOUISIANA; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHIES; PEDIGREE; POLY(A)-BINDING PROTEIN II;

EID: 0033615475     PISSN: 01487299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8628(19991029)86:5<477::AID-AJMG14>3.0.CO;2-A     Document Type: Article

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