Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy is Uniquely Associated with One of the Two Variants of the 4q Subtelomere

Overview

Journal Nat Genet

Specialty Genetics

Date 2002 Oct 2

PMID 12355084

Citations 138

Authors

Richard J L F Lemmers

Peggy de Kievit

Lodewijk Sandkuijl

George W Padberg

Gert-Jan B van Ommen

Rune R Frants

Silvere M van der Maarel

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Abstract

Contractions in the polymorphic D4Z4 repeat array of subtelomere 4qter cause autosomal dominant facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy in humans. A polymorphic segment of 10 kb directly distal to D4Z4 exists in two allelic forms, 4qA and 4qB. Although both alleles are equally common in the general population, we now report that FSHD is associated solely with the 4qA allele.

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