Letter to the editorDeveloping a one-step triplet-repeat primed PCR assay for diagnosing myotonic dystrophy
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Acknowledgments
We thank the Genetics Diagnostic Laboratory of Boston Children's Hospital for kindly providing the control samples of DM1. We also thank Gang Li, Renchao Liu, Yanrong Qing, and Youhan Yao for their assistance with sample preparations and logistics. This study was supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (2010CB529601 and 2013CB945404) to B.L. Wu, the Fudan Young Teacher Funding to Y. An, the higher Education Research Project of Gansu Province (2015B-094) to X. Lan, and Shanghai
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