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Walker-Warburg syndrome is genetically distinct from Fukuyama type congenital muscular dystrophy.
Journal of the neurological sciences - 15 Aug 2000
Chadani Y, Kondoh T, Kamimura N, Matsumoto T, Matsuzaka T, Kobayashi O, Kondo-Iida E, Kobayashi K, Nonaka I, Toda T
Abstract excerpt
A female patient who fulfilled the diagnostic criteria of Walker-Warburg syndrome had muscle biopsy finding of muscular dystrophy. There was normal expression of merosin (laminin alpha2 chain) and dystrophin and only slightly reduced dystrophin-associated glycoprotein expression. On genetic analysis, she had no specific haplotype, the common mutation of 3kb insertion, or point mutations in the Fukuyama-type...
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