Sibship stability of genotype and phenotype in myotonic dystrophy

Clinical Genetics

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 220-225

  Brisson, Diane ^a,b   Tremblay, M ^b   Prevost C ^a   Laberge, C ^c   Puymirat, J ^c   Mathieu, J ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À CHICOUTIMI   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^d Jonquière Hospital   (Canada)

Author keywords

Birth order; Intergenesic interval; Myotonic dystrophy; Sibship; Variability

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; GUANINE; THYMINE;

ARTICLE; BIRTH ORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC STABILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONSET AGE; PARENTAL AGE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIBLING; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; CHILD; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT EXPANSION;

EID: 0036766276     PISSN: 00099163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-0004.2002.620306.x     Document Type: Article

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