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Comparative Analysis of Antisense Oligonucleotide Sequences for Targeted Skipping of Exon 51 During Dystrophin Pre-mRNA Splicing in Human Muscle
1 Sept 2007
Abstract excerpt
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is caused by mutations in the dystrophin gene that result in the absence of functional protein. In the majority of cases these are out-of-frame deletions that disrupt the reading frame. Several attempts have been made to restore the dystrophin mRNA reading frame by modulation of pre-mRNA splicing with antisense oligonucleotides (AOs), demonstrating success in cultured cells,...
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