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Congenital muscular dystrophy with glycosylation defects of alpha-dystroglycan in Japan.
Neuromuscular disorders : NMD - 1 May 2005
Matsumoto Hiroshi, Hayashi Yukiko K, Kim Dae-Son, Ogawa Megumu, Murakami Terumi, Noguchi Satoru, Nonaka Ikuya, Nakazawa Tomoyuki, Matsuo Takiko, Futagami Satoshi, Campbell Kevin P, Nishino Ichizo
Abstract excerpt
Glycosylation defects of alpha-dystroglycan (alpha-DG) cause various muscular dystrophies. We performed clinical, pathological and genetic analyses of 62 Japanese patients with congenital muscular dystrophy, whose skeletal muscle showed deficiency of glycosylated form of alpha-DG. We found, the first Japanese patient with congenital muscular dystrophy 1C with a novel compound heterozygous mutation in the...
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