Oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy: phenotypic and genotypic studies in a UK population.
Oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy (OPMD) is an autosomal dominant disorder of late onset that commonly presents with ptosis and dysphagia. The genetic basis of the condition has been identified recently as a stable trinucleotide repeat expansion in exon 1 of the poly(A) binding protein 2 gene (PABP...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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2001
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