Muscular dystrophy: historical overview and classification in the genetic era.

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Despite recent advances in molecular genetics, it has proven very difficult to arrive at an accurate and clinically useful classification of the muscular dystrophies. Much of this difficulty arises from confusion related to the term "muscular dystrophy" itself, as well as a general reluctance on the part of the neuromuscular community to abandon traditional, clinically based classifications. Nevertheless,...

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