Transcriptional changes and developmental abnormalities in a zebrafish model of myotonic dystrophy type 1

• Main Authors: Peter K. Todd (Author), Feras Y. Ackall (Author), Junguk Hur (Author), Kush Sharma (Author), Henry L. Paulson (Author), James J. Dowling (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: The Company of Biologists, 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Myotonic dystrophy type I (DM1) is a multi-system, autosomal dominant disorder caused by expansion of a CTG repeat sequence in the 3'UTR of the DMPK gene. The size of the repeat sequence correlates with age at onset and disease severity, with large repeats leading to congenital forms of DM1 ass...