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Dysferlin homozygous mutation G1418D causes limb-girdle type 2B in a Mexican family.
Genetic testing - 1 Jan 2007
Rosas-Vargas H, Gómez-Díaz B, Ruano-Calderón L, Fernández-Valverde F, Roque-Ramírez B, Portillo-Bobadilla T, Ordoñez-Razo R M, Minauro-Sanmiguel F, Coral-Vázquez R
Abstract excerpt
Dysferlin protein (DYSF) is a ferlin family member found in sarcolemma and is involved in membrane repair, muscle differentiation, membrane fusion, etc. The deficiency of DYSF due to mutations is associated with different pathologic phenotypes including the autosomal recessive limb-girdle type 2B phenotype (LGMD2B), a distal anterior compartment myopathy (DMAT), and the Miyoshi myopathy (MM). In this study, we...
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