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Frequency of intergenerational contractions of the CTG repeats in myotonic dystrophy

✍ Scribed by A. López de Munain; A.M. Cobo; A. Sáenz; A. Blanco; J.J. Poza; L. Martorell; J.F. Martí-Massó; M. Baiget

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1996
Tongue
English
Weight
337 KB
Volume
13
Category
Article
ISSN
0741-0395

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✦ Synopsis

Myotonic dystrophy (MD), an autosomal dominant multisystemic disorder with a high phenotypic variability, is the most common muscular dystrophy in adult life. The mutation underlying DM has been characterized as an expanded CTG trinucleotide repeat sequence in the 3 ' untranslated region of a protein kinase gene on chromosome 19q13.2-13.3.

We have analyzed the presence of CTG intergenerational variations on transmission in parent-child pairs affected with DM. The series includes 90% of all living affected descendants (symptomatic or asymptomatic) from a given myotonic dystrophy (DM) patient. A contraction of the CTG repeat size was observed in ten parent-child pairs (14.1%) and remained unchanged in five (7%) pairs. The number of CTG repeats decreased in 2/30 maternal transmissions (6.7%) and in 8/41 paternal transmissions (19.5%). We found 14 asymptomatic individuals carrying the CTG expansion among the offspring. In six of them, a contraction of the CTG repeat was observed, and in all six cases, the DM allele was paternally transmitted. Since nearly all the asymptomatic family members of DM patients were analyzed in this series, the observed percentage of contractions can be considered more realistic, even though the number of parent-child pairs is small.

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