Article
[Duchenne's and Becker's muscular dystrophy: analysis of phenotype-genotype correlation in 28 patients] ].
Srpski arhiv za celokupno lekarstvo - 1 Jan 2000
Keckarević Milica, Savić Dusanka, Culjković Biljana, Zamurović Natasa, Major Tamara, Keckarević Dusan, Todorović Slobodanka, Romac Stanka
Abstract excerpt
Duchenne's and Becker's muscular dystrophy (DMD & BMD) is a X linked disease caused by mutations in the dystrophic gene. DMD is the malign form of the disease, which significantly shortens the lifetime of the patient, while BMD has late onset with slow progression. Sixty five percent of DMD and BMD cases are caused by deletion of one or more exons in the dystrophic gene, while duplications cause these diseases in...
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