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Science 18 July 1969:
Vol. 165. no. 3890, pp. 294 - 296
DOI: 10.1126/science.165.3890.294
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Myotonic Muscular Dystrophy: Abnormalities in Fibroblast Culture

Michael R. Swift 1 and Milton J. Finegold 2

1 Departments of Medicine and Physiology, New York University Medical Center, New York 10016
2 Department of Pathology

Skin fibroblasts in culture, derived from four unrelated patients with myotonic muscular dystrophy, contain abnormally large amounts of material with the staining characteristics of acid mucopolysaccharide. These cells also differ from normal cells in their pattern of growth at a high density in culture.

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Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)