oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy

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oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy - a form of muscular dystrophy that usually begins between early adulthood and middle age and first affects muscles of the eyelid and throat; progresses slowly with swallowing problems common as the disease progresses; inheritance is autosomal dominant

dystrophy, muscular dystrophy - any of several hereditary diseases of the muscular system characterized by weakness and wasting of skeletal muscles

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Nuclear inclusions in oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy consist of poly(A) binding protein 2 aggregates which sequester poly(A) RNA.

Oculopharyngeal Weakness, Hypophrenia, Deafness, and Impaired Vision: A Novel Autosomal Dominant Myopathy with Rimmed Vacuoles

Oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy (OPMD) (OMIM #164300) is a late-onset (>45 years) myopathy characterised by progressive ptosis, dysphagia and varying degrees of proximal muscle weakness.

A South African family with oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy: clinical and molecular genetic characteristics

Using the full power of linkag e analysis in l I French Canadian families to fine map the oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy gene.

Speech-language clinical pattern in a neurogenic dysphagia case through oculo-pharyngeal muscular dystrophy/Conduta fonoaudiologica em um caso de disfagia neurogenica por distrofia muscular oculofaringea

The chapter on oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy discusses one such disease that is most common in the Bukhara Jews living in Israel (prevalence, 1:600).

International Neurology: A Clinical Approach

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