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Biphasic myopathic phenotype of mouse DUX, an ORF within conserved FSHD-related repeats.
PloS one - 16 Sept 2009
Bosnakovski Darko, Daughters Randy S, Xu Zhaohui, Slack Jonathan M W, Kyba Michael
Abstract excerpt
Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) is caused by contractions of D4Z4 repeats at 4q35.2 thought to induce misregulation of nearby genes, one of which, DUX4, is actually localized within each repeat. A conserved ORF (mDUX), embedded within D4Z4-like repeats, encoding a double-homeodomain protein, was recently identified on mouse chromosome 10. We show here that high level mDUX expression induces myoblast...
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