Anatomy of a founder effect: Myotonic dystrophy in Northeastern Quebec

Human Genetics

Volumn 117, Issue 2-3, 2005, Pages 177-187

  Yotova, Vania ^a   Labuda, Damian ^a,b   Zietkiewicz, Ewa ^a,g   Gehl, Dominik ^a   Lovell, Alan ^a   Lefebvre, Jean François ^a   Bourgeois, Stéphane ^a   Lemieux Blanchard, Émilie ^a   Labuda, Marcin ^a   Vézina, Hélène ^c   Houde, Louis ^c   Tremblay, Marc ^c   Toupance, Bruno ^d   Heyer, Evelyne ^d   Hudson, Thomas J ^e   Laberge, Claude ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À CHICOUTIMI   (Canada)

^d Université Diderot Paris 7   (France)

^e MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^g INSTITUTE OF HUMAN GENETICS   (Poland)

Author keywords

Founder effect; Myotonic dystrophy; Northeastern Quebec; SNPs

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOUNDER EFFECT; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ALLELE; FEMALE; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE; MALE; MUTATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ALLELES; FEMALE; FOUNDER EFFECT; HAPLOTYPES; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MUTATION; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUEBEC;

EID: 26944468325     PISSN: 03406717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00439-005-1298-8     Document Type: Article

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