University of Iowa Research Foundation

Marc Jeanpierre

Kevin P Campbell

Steven L Roberds

Yoshihide Sunada

Federica Piccolo

Jean-Claude Kaplan

Disclosed herein are compositions and methods for the detection of primary adhalinopathy. More specifically, disclosed herein are nucleic acid probes which hybridize specifically, under stringent hybridization conditions, to a mutant adhalin gene or the complement thereof, but not to the corresponding region of a wild-type adhalin gene. Also disclosed are methods for the detection of a mutation in the human adhalin gene which is responsible for primary adhalinopathy. Such methods include the use of the nucleic acid probes of the invention for detection of the myopathy by hybridization, as well as detection by direct DNA sequencing techniques.

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Bourg la Reine, France

Marc Jeanpierre