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Ullrich scleroatonic muscular dystrophy is caused by recessive mutations in collagen type VI.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 19 Jun 2001
Camacho Vanegas O, Bertini E, Zhang R Z, Petrini S, Minosse C, Sabatelli P, Giusti B, Chu M L, Pepe G
Abstract excerpt
Ullrich syndrome is a recessive congenital muscular dystrophy affecting connective tissue and muscle. The molecular basis is unknown. Reverse transcription-PCR amplification performed on RNA extracted from fibroblasts or muscle of three Ullrich patients followed by heteroduplex analysis displayed heteroduplexes in one of the three genes coding for collagen type VI (COL6). In patient A, we detected a homozygous...
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