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Frequency of LGMD gene mutations in Italian patients with distinct clinical phenotypes.
Neurology - 21 Apr 2009
Fanin M, Nascimbeni A C, Aurino S, Tasca E, Pegoraro E, Nigro V, Angelini C
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The frequency of various limb-girdle muscular dystrophy (LGMD) molecular diagnoses has previously been investigated only in cohorts of patients presenting LGMD phenotype. METHODS: A total of 550 muscle biopsies underwent multiple protein screening (including calpain-3 functional assay) and extensive gene mutation analysis to examine the frequency of LGMD subtypes in patients with distinct clinical...
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