ミオトニック筋縮症に関連する遺伝子の不安定なトリプルレピート

Y H Fu1, A Pizzuti, R G Fenwick

  • 1Institute for Molecular Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|March 16, 1992
PubMed
まとめ

研究者らは,ミオトニック・ディストロフィー (DM) と関連した不安定なGCTトリプルートリピートシーケンスを特定しました. この遺伝的不安定性,特に三重増幅は,脆弱なX症候群に似たDM発達の重要な要因である.

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