The Unstable CCTG Repeat Responsible for Myotonic Dystrophy Type 2 Originates from an AluSx Element Insertion into an Early Primate Genome

• Tatsuaki Kurosaki,

  Current address: Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States of America

  Affiliation Division of Neurogenetics, Center for Neurological Diseases and Cancer, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan

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• Shintaroh Ueda,

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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• Takafumi Ishida,

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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• Koji Abe,

  Affiliation Department of Neurology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

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• Kinji Ohno,

  Affiliation Division of Neurogenetics, Center for Neurological Diseases and Cancer, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan

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• Tohru Matsuura

  * E-mail: tohrum@cc.okayama-u.ac.jp

  Affiliations Division of Neurogenetics, Center for Neurological Diseases and Cancer, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan, Department of Neurology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

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