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Becker muscular dystrophy in Indian patients: analysis of dystrophin gene deletion patterns.
Neurology India - 1 Jan 2000
Dastur Rashna S, Gaitonde Pradnya S, Khadilkar Satish V, Nadkarni Jayshree J
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Becker muscular dystrophy (BMD) is caused by mutations in the dystrophin gene with variable phenotypes. Becker muscular dystrophy patients have low levels of nearly full-length dystrophin and carry in-frame mutations, which allow partial functioning of the protein. AIM: To study the deletion patterns of BMD and to correlate the same with reading frame rule and different phenotypes. SETTING: A tertiary...
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