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Therapeutic antisense-induced exon skipping in cultured muscle cells from six different DMD patients.
Human molecular genetics - 15 Apr 2003
Aartsma-Rus Annemieke, Janson Anneke A M, Kaman Wendy E, Bremmer-Bout Mattie, den Dunnen Johan T, Baas Frank, van Ommen Gert-Jan B, van Deutekom Judith C T
Abstract excerpt
The dystrophin deficiency leading to the severely progressing muscle degeneration in Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) patients is caused by frame-shifting mutations in the DMD gene. We are developing a reading frame correction therapy aimed at the antisense-induced skipping of targeted exons from the pre-mRNA. Despite introducing a (larger) deletion, an in-frame transcript is generated that allows the synthesis...
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