Meiotic drive an Myotonic Dystrophy – Reply

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Meiotic drive an Myotonic Dystrophy – Reply

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Carey, NJ, K.; Nokelainen, P.; Peltonen, L.; Savontaus, M. L.; Juvonen, V.; Anvret, M.; Grandell, U.; Chotai, K.; Robertson, E.; Middletonprice, H.; Malcolm, S.,  Nature Genetics,  10:133-133. 1995.

Myotonic dystrophy (DM) is a trinucleotide disorder and in sub-clinical individuals there is considerable variation in the length of the CTG repeat. Two groups have recently analysed the patterns of segregation of different sized alleles at this locus and both report an excess of the longer version of the allele in the progeny of sub-clinical individuals1•2• This excess they claim to be due to meiotic drive1•2• Our re-analysis of these two studies indic