Investigating the pathology of Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy.

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EDMD (Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy) is caused by mutations in either the gene encoding for lamin A/C (LMNA) located at 1q21.2-q21.3 or emerin (EMD) located at Xq28. Autosomal dominant EDMD caused by LMNA mutations is more common than the X-linked form and often more severe, with an earlier onset. At the histological and histochemical levels, both X-linked and autosomal dominant EDMD appear similar. However,...

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