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Extreme variability of skeletal and cardiac muscle involvement in patients with mutations in exon 11 of the lamin A/C gene.
Muscle & nerve - 1 May 2005
Mercuri E, Brown S C, Nihoyannopoulos P, Poulton J, Kinali M, Richard P, Piercy R J, Messina S, Sewry C, Burke M M, McKenna W, Bonne G, Muntoni F
Abstract excerpt
Mutations of the LMNA gene, encoding the nuclear envelope proteins lamins A and C, give rise to Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy and to limb-girdle muscular dystrophy 1B (EDMD and LGMD1B). With one exception, all the reported EDMD and LGMD1B mutations are confined to the first 10 exons of the gene. We report four separate cases, with mutations in the same codon of LMNA exon 11, characterized by remarkable...
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