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Novel and recurrent mutations in lamin A/C in patients with Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy.
American journal of medical genetics - 1 Sept 2001
Brown C A, Lanning R W, McKinney K Q, Salvino A R, Cherniske E, Crowe C A, Darras B T, Gominak S, Greenberg C R, Grosmann C, Heydemann P, Mendell J R, Pober B R, Sasaki T, Shapiro F, Simpson D A, Suchowersky O, Spence J E
Abstract excerpt
Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy (EDMD) is characterized by slowly progressive muscle wasting and weakness; early contractures of the elbows, Achilles tendons, and spine; and cardiomyopathy associated with cardiac conduction defects. Clinically indistinguishable X-linked and autosomal forms of EDMD have been described. Mutations in the STA gene, encoding the nuclear envelope protein emerin, are responsible for...
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