Evolutionary conservation of a coding function for D4Z4, the tandem DNA repeat mutated in facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy.

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Published in Am J Hum Genet on June 27, 2007

Authors

Jannine Clapp1, Laura M Mitchell, Daniel J Bolland, Judy Fantes, Anne E Corcoran, Paul J Scotting, John A L Armour, Jane E Hewitt

Author Affiliations

1: Institute of Genetics, The University of Nottingham, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, NG7 2UH, and Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK.

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