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Patterns of dystrophin gene deletion in Egyptian Duchenne/Becker muscular dystrophy patients.
Acta myologica : myopathies and cardiomyopathies : official journal of the Mediterranean Society of Myology - 1 Dec 2007
El Sherif R M, Fahmy N Aly, Nonaka I, Etribi M A
Abstract excerpt
Large variations in the proportion of intragenic deletion in the dystrophin gene have been observed in different populations. Although dystrophin gene deletion was extensively studied all over the world, only few studies were done on Egyptian population and there was no account on the dystrophin gene duplication. In this study, we present our results on the pattern of deletion of the dystrophin gene together with...
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