Aim: The purpose of this study was to determine the allelic and genotypic frequency distribution of the C34T mutation in the muscle isoform of the adenosine monophosphate deaminase 1 (AMPD1) gene and of the missense substitution K153R in the myostatin (GDF8) gene in one Spanish and two North African populations.
Method: One sample of 98 individuals was genotyped from the South of Spain (Alpujarra) and two samples from Morocco (77 Berbers and 78 Arabs).
Results: The frequency of the AMPD1 C34T mutation was lower in Berbers (0.071) compared with the Alpujarra cohort (0.153, p = 0.018). The GDF8 K153R substitution showed little variability among the three cohorts.
Conclusions: Studies with larger cohorts and other ethnic groups are needed to corroborate that there does not exist any major variability in the genotype distribution of genes associated with muscle phenotypes in the South-Eastern Mediterranean area.
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