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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1999-5-7
pubmed:abstractText
We report the clinical and genetic characteristics of a five-generation family (MN1) with an unusual form of myotonic dystrophy (DM). Affected individuals have clinical features that are similar to DM including myotonia, distal weakness, frontal balding, polychromatic cataracts, infertility and cardiac arrhythmias. Genetic analyses reveal that affected individuals do not have the CTG expansion associated with DM, nor is the disease locus linked to the DM region of chromosome 19. We have also excluded the MN1 disease locus from the chromosomal regions containing the genes for the muscle sodium (alpha- and beta-subunits) and chloride channels, both of which are involved in other myotonic disorders. We have recently mapped the disease locus (DM2) in this family to a 10 cM region of chromosome 3q [Ranum LPW, Rasmussen PF, Benzow KA, Koob MD, Day JW. Nat Genet 1998;19:196-198]. The genetically distinct form of myotonic dystrophy in the MN1 kindred shares some of the clinical features of previously reported families with proximal myotonic myopathy (PROMM). The size of the MN1 family (25 affected individuals) makes it a unique resource for both clinical and genetic studies. This second form of myotonic dystrophy may help resolve the confusion that remains about how the CTG repeat expansion in the 3' untranslated portion of the myotonin protein kinase gene causes the multisystem involvement of DM.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
0960-8966
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
9
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
19-27
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:10063831-Adolescent, pubmed-meshheading:10063831-Adult, pubmed-meshheading:10063831-Aged, pubmed-meshheading:10063831-Arrhythmias, Cardiac, pubmed-meshheading:10063831-Chromosome Mapping, pubmed-meshheading:10063831-Chromosomes, Human, Pair 3, pubmed-meshheading:10063831-Chromosomes, Human, Pair 9, pubmed-meshheading:10063831-DNA, pubmed-meshheading:10063831-Electromyography, pubmed-meshheading:10063831-Endocrine Glands, pubmed-meshheading:10063831-Female, pubmed-meshheading:10063831-Genetic Heterogeneity, pubmed-meshheading:10063831-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:10063831-Ion Channels, pubmed-meshheading:10063831-Lens, Crystalline, pubmed-meshheading:10063831-Male, pubmed-meshheading:10063831-Middle Aged, pubmed-meshheading:10063831-Muscle, Skeletal, pubmed-meshheading:10063831-Myotonic Dystrophy, pubmed-meshheading:10063831-Pedigree
pubmed:year
1999
pubmed:articleTitle
Clinical and genetic characteristics of a five-generation family with a novel form of myotonic dystrophy (DM2).
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Neurology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455-0323, USA. johnday@tc.umn.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't