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Cloning of the mouse dysferlin gene and genomic characterization of the SJL-Dysf mutation.
Neuroreport - 5 Mar 2001
Vafiadaki E, Reis A, Keers S, Harrison R, Anderson L V, Raffelsberger T, Ivanova S, Hoger H, Bittner R E, Bushby K, Bashir R
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The SJL mouse strain has been widely used as an animal model for experimental autoimmune encephalitis (EAE), inflammatory muscle disease and lymphomas and has also been used as a background strain for the generation of animal models for a variety of diseases including motor neurone disease, multiple sclerosis and atherosclerosis. Recently the SJL mouse was shown to have myopathy due to dysferlin deficiency, so...
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