A patient with myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) accompanied by laryngeal and renal cell carcinomas had a small CTG triplet repeat expansion but no somatic instability in normal tissues

Internal Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 312-318

  Kinoshita, Masanobu ^a   Osanai, Ryuichi ^a   Kikkawa, Masaru ^a   Adachi, Akiko ^a   Ohtake, Toshiyuki ^b   Komori, Tetsuo ^b   Hashimoto, Kohzo ^c   Itoyama, Shinnji ^a   Mitarai, Tetsuya ^a   Hirose, Kazuhiko ^d  

^a SAITAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN NEUROLOGICAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c Toyobo Gene Analysis Co LTD   (Japan)

^d Ueno Hospital Internal Medicine   (Japan)

Author keywords

Double cancers; Non somatic instability; Triplet repeat

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; DNA; GUANOSINE; TYROSINE;

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; DEATH; DNA DETERMINATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; LARYNGECTOMY; LARYNX CARCINOMA; LEUKOCYTE; LIVER METASTASIS; MALE; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

EID: 0036251033     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.41.312     Document Type: Article

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