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Desmin splice variants causing cardiac and skeletal myopathy.
Journal of medical genetics - 1 Nov 2000
Park K Y, Dalakas M C, Goebel H H, Ferrans V J, Semino-Mora C, Litvak S, Takeda K, Goldfarb L G
Abstract excerpt
Desmin myopathy is a hereditary or sporadic cardiac and skeletal myopathy characterised by intracytoplasmic accumulation of desmin reactive deposits in muscle cells. We have characterised novel splice site mutations in the gene desmin resulting in deletion of the entire exon 3 during the pre-mRNA splicing. Sequencing of cDNA and genomic DNA identified a heterozygous de novo A to G change at the +3 position of the...
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