[These disorders are distinguished from myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM-1), the more recently described proximal myotonic myopathy/myotonic dystrophy type 2 (PROMM/DM-2), and proximal myotonic dystrophy (a variant of DM-2) by characteristic clinical features, lack of abnormal nucleotide repeat expansions in the DM-1 and DM-2 genes, lack of cataracts and endocrine disturbances, and absence of significant histopathology in the muscle biopsy.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
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