Upgrading molecular diagnostics of myotonic dystrophies: Multiplexing for simultaneous characterization of the DMPK and ZNF9 repeat motifs

Molecular and Cellular Probes

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 182-185

  Radvansky, Jan ^a,b   Ficek, Andrej ^a,b   Kadasi, Ludevit ^a,b  

^a Faculty of Natural Sciences   (Slovakia)

^b INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PHYSIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

DMPK; Expansion; Myotonic dystrophy type 1; Myotonic dystrophy type 2; Repeat primed PCR; ZNF9

Indexed keywords

DNA; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY PROTEIN KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN 9;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ELECTROPHORESIS; PROTEIN MOTIF; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

HUMANS; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

EID: 79959782258     PISSN: 08908508     EISSN: 10961194     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mcp.2011.04.006     Document Type: Article

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