Oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy with PABPN1 mutation in a Chinese Malaysian woman
β Scribed by Khean Jin Goh; Kum Thong Wong; Ichizo Nishino; Narihiro Minami; Ikuya Nonaka
- Book ID
- 116792270
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 60 KB
- Volume
- 15
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0960-8966
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Oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy (OPMD) is a late onset autosomal dominant muscle disorder. The OPMD-locus has been mapped to chromosome 14q11.2-q13. The polyadenylate binding protein nuclear 1 (PABPN1; PABP2) gene has been identified as the mutated gene. The mutation consists of a short meiotical
## Abstract This study aims to perform gene diagnosis for Chinese family patients with Oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy (OPMD). Genomic DNAs were extracted from the pedigrees' members. Gene diagnosis was performed for these pedigrees' members by approaches, such as DNA sequencing and GeneScan. Se