Calpain-3 and dysferlin protein screening in patients with limb–girdle dystrophy and myopathy

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BACKGROUND: Mutations in the genes encoding for calpain-3 and dysferlin are responsible for limb-girdle muscular dystrophy (LGMD) type 2A and 2B, the most common forms of autosomal recessive LGMD. OBJECTIVE: To identify calpain-3 or dysferlin deficiency in a large cohort of patients with as yet unclassified LGMD and myopathy through candidate protein analysis. METHODS: The authors' muscle biopsy database search...

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