August 2018 (v1)
Journal article
Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) has been shown to be related to genetic and epigenetic derepression of DUX4 (mapping to chromosome 4), a gene located within a repeat array of D4Z4 sequences of polymorphic length. FSHD type 1 (FSHD1) is associated with pathogenic D4Z4 repeat array contraction, while FSHD type 2 (FSHD2) is...
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