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Microarray-based mutation detection in the dystrophin gene.
Human mutation - 1 Sept 2008
Hegde Madhuri R, Chin Ephrem L H, Mulle Jennifer G, Okou David T, Warren Stephen T, Zwick Michael E
Abstract excerpt
Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophies (DMD and BMD) are X-linked recessive neuromuscular disorders caused by mutations in the dystrophin gene affecting approximately 1 in 3,500 males. The human dystrophin gene spans>2,200 kb, or roughly 0.1% of the genome, and is composed of 79 exons. The mutational spectrum of disease-causing alleles, including exonic copy number variations (CNVs), is complex. Deletions...
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