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Correlations between clinical severity, genotype and muscle pathology in limb girdle muscular dystrophy type 2A.
Journal of medical genetics - 1 Oct 2007
Fanin M, Nardetto L, Nascimbeni A C, Tasca E, Spinazzi M, Padoan R, Angelini C
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Limb girdle muscular dystrophy type 2A (LGMD2A) is characterised by wide variability in clinical features and rate of progression. Patients with two null mutations usually have a rapid course, but in the remaining cases (two missense mutations or compound heterozygote mutations) prognosis is uncertain. METHODS: We conducted what is to our knowledge the first systematic histopathological, biochemical...
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