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DMD pseudoexon mutations: splicing efficiency, phenotype, and potential therapy.
Annals of neurology - 1 Jan 2008
Gurvich Olga L, Tuohy Therese M, Howard Michael T, Finkel Richard S, Medne Livija, Anderson Christine B, Weiss Robert B, Wilton Steve D, Flanigan Kevin M
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OBJECTIVE: The degenerative muscle diseases Duchenne (DMD) and Becker muscular dystrophy result from mutations in the DMD gene, which encodes the dystrophin protein. Recent improvements in mutational analysis techniques have resulted in the increasing identification of deep intronic point mutations, which alter splicing such that intronic sequences are included in the messenger RNA as "pseudoexons." We sought to...
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