Low incidence of myotonic dystrophy in Chinese Hans is associated with a lower number of CTG trinucleotide repeats

Correlation between the incidence of myo

Correlation between the incidence of myotonic dystrophy in different groups in Israel and the number of CTG trinucleotide repeats in the myotonin gene

✍ Mor-Cohen, Ronit; Magal, Nurit; Gadoth, Nathan; Shohat, Tamar; Shohat, Mordechai 📂 Article 📅 1997 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 19 KB 👁 2 views

Myotonic dystrophy (DM) is associated with an increased number of CTG repeats in the 3 untranslated region of the myotonin gene. Because DM has been observed less frequently in Ashkenazic Jews and non-Jews than in North African and Yemenite Jews in Israel, a study of the CTG repeat polymorphism was