Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy is uniquely associated with one of the two variants of the 4q subtelomere
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- 23 September 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Nature Genetics
- Vol. 32 (2) , 235-236
- https://doi.org/10.1038/ng999
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.Keywords
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