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X-linked dilated cardiomyopathy and the dystrophin gene.
Neuromuscular disorders : NMD - 1 Jul 1999
Ferlini A, Sewry C, Melis M A, Mateddu A, Muntoni F
Abstract excerpt
X-linked dilated cardiomyopathy (XLDC) represents a well known genetic disease, allelic to Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophies and caused by dystrophin gene mutations. XLDC is a rare disease and only few families have been fully characterised. In several of them, the dystrophin mutations show a different pattern of expression in cardiac compared to skeletal muscle. In the families with the most severe...
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