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Clinical and mutational spectrum of limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 2I in 11 French patients.
Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry - 1 Dec 2009
Bourteel H, Vermersch P, Cuisset J-M, Maurage C-A, Laforet P, Richard P, Stojkovic T
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy 2I (LGMD2I) is caused by mutations in the fukutin-related protein gene FKRP, which is also involved in congenital muscular dystrophy (MDC1C). OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the clinical, biological, radiological and mutational characteristics of LGMD2I patients with FKRP mutation. METHODS: Eleven patients from nine families from the north of France were studied. Demographical...
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