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ReviewCurrent opinion in genetics & development2017

Myotonic dystrophy: disease repeat range, penetrance, age of onset, and relationship between repeat size and phenotypes.

Kevin Yum, Eric T Wang, Auinash Kalsotra

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Review in Current opinion in genetics & development, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 63 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
63citing papers in PubMed
4.2field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

63 citing papers in PubMed, 120 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Delpacibart etedesiran improves the molecular pathology of myotonic dystrophy type 1 in the phase 1/2 MARINA study.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2026
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  13. Myotonic dystrophies: an update on clinical features, molecular mechanisms, management, and gene therapy.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2025
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  16. Muscular Dystrophies.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2025
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  17. DNA Sequencing and the Third-Generation Sequencing Revolution.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2025
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  20. Molecular Pathology of Myotonic Dystrophy Type 1 in Iceland.Molecular genetics & genomic medicine · 2024
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3 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Kevin YumDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA.
Eric T WangDepartment of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, Center for Neurogenetics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA. Electronic address: eric.t.wang@ufl.edu.
Auinash KalsotraDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA; Institute of Genomic Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA. Electronic address: kalsotra@illinois.edu.
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · USUniversity of Florida · US

Funding

Post-transcriptional mechanisms of gene regulation in cardiac cell growth and developmentR01HL126845 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN · PI KALSOTRA, AUINASH · 2015 to 2023
$3.5M
Ppst-transcriptional regulation of gene expression in neuromuscular diseaseDP5OD017865 · OD · UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA · PI WANG, ERIC T · 2013 to 2017
$2.0M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL126845NIH HHS DP5 OD017865
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Myotonic dystrophy (DM) is an autosomal dominant neuromuscular disease primarily characterized by myotonia and progressive muscle weakness. The pathogenesis of DM involves microsatellite expansions in noncoding regions of transcripts that result in toxic RNA gain-of-function. Each successive generation of DM families carries larger repeat expansions, leading to an earlier age of onset with increasing disease severity. At present, diagnosis of DM is challenging and requires special genetic testing to account for somatic mosaicism and meiotic instability. While progress in genetic testing has been made, more rapid, accurate, and cost-effective approaches for measuring repeat lengths are needed to establish clear correlations between repeat size and disease phenotypes.

Indexed as

PenetranceAge of OnsetGenetic TestingHumansMyotonic DystrophyPhenotypeRepetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid

Identifiers

PMID28213156
PMCPMC5447468
OpenAlexW2588245299

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