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A new distal myopathy with mutation in anoctamin 5.
Neuromuscular disorders : NMD - 1 Dec 2010
Mahjneh Ibrahim, Jaiswal Jyoti, Lamminen Antti, Somer Mirja, Marlow Gareth, Kiuru-Enari Sari, Bashir Rumaisa
Abstract excerpt
We have been following clinically and with muscle MRI for the past 3-decades a Finnish family with two patients with distal muscular dystrophy. Previously we demonstrated the cellular defect in these patients to be defective membrane repair and more recently have identified the causative gene to be anoctamin 5 (ANO5). The disorder seen in these patients is characterized by onset in the third decade. First...
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