Distribution of CTG repeats at the DMPK gene in myotonic dystrophy patients and healthy individuals from the Mexican population.

Molecular Biology Reports
Jonathan J MagañaBulmaro Cisneros

Abstract

Myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1), the most common form of adult muscular dystrophy, is caused by anormal expansion of CTG trinucleotide repeats located in the 3'-untranslated region of the DMPK gene. The clinical features of DM1 are multisystemic and highly variable, and the unstable nature of CTG expansion causes wide genotypic and phenotypic presentations. In this study, we described to our knowledge for the first time the molecular diagnosis of myotonic dystrophy type 1 patients in the Mexican population, applying a fluorescent PCR method in combination with capillary electrophoresis analysis of the amplified products. We identified expanded alleles in 45 out of 50 patients (90%) with clinical features of myotonic disease. Furthermore, genotyping of 400 healthy subjects revealed the presence of 25 different alleles, ranging in size from 5 to 34 repeats. The most frequent allele was 13 CTG repeats (38.87%) and the frequency for alleles over 18 CTG repeats was 6.7%. Molecular test is essential for DM1 diagnosis and distribution of the CTG repeat alleles present in the Mexican population are significantly different from those of other populations.

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Apr 18, 2019·Muscle & Nerve·Amalia A Franco-GuerreroJonathan J Magaña
Dec 6, 2019·Bioinformatics·Snædis KristmundsdottirBjarni V Halldorsson
Oct 14, 2014·Molecular Biology Reports·R RodríguezB Cisneros

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