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Nebulin expression in patients with nemaline myopathy.
Neuromuscular disorders : NMD - 1 Mar 2001
Gurgel-Giannetti J, Reed U, Bang M L, Pelin K, Donner K, Marie S K, Carvalho M, Fireman M A, Zanoteli E, Oliveira A S, Zatz M, Wallgren-Pettersson C, Labeit S, Vainzof M
Abstract excerpt
Nemaline myopathy is a structural congenital myopathy which may show both autosomal dominant and autosomal recessive inheritance patterns. Mutations in three different genes have been identified as the cause of nemaline myopathy: the gene for slow alpha-tropomyosin 3 (TPM3) at 1q22-23, the nebulin gene (NEB) at 2q21.1-q22, and the actin gene (ACTA1) at 1q42. The typical autosomal recessive form appears to be the...
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