Novel mutations in three patients with LGMD2C with phenotypic differences.

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Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 2C is an autosomal-recessive disorder caused by mutations in gamma-sarcoglycan encoding gene. This disease is characterized by childhood onset of progressive muscular dystrophy. Because of the clinical presentation, this disorder may be misdiagnosed as a dystrophinopathy. Two males (Patients A and B) from one Turkish family and one male (Patient C) from a Moroccan family had...

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