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...researchers found, through a process called gene mapping, that the repetition of a nucleotide sequence triplet, CTG, is the cause of the disease. The sequence is present in most people, but researchers demonstrated that it is significantly more abundant in myotonic dystrophy sufferers...
...research was partially funded by the Muscular Dystrophy Association. Brooks is a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of MIT professor David E. Housman, who announced earlier this month that muscular dystrophy was linked to an enlarged and unstable area of the same chromosome on which CTG appears...
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