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[Recent Advances in α-dystroglycanopathy].
Brain and nerve = Shinkei kenkyu no shinpo - 1 Nov 2011
Kuga Atsushi, Kanagawa Motoi, Toda Tatsushi
Abstract excerpt
Fukuyama-type congenital muscular dystrophy (FCMD), muscle-eye-brain disease (MEB), and Walker-Warburg syndrome (WWS) are autosomal recessive disorders characterized by congenital muscular dystrophy with structural brain and eye abnormalities. Aberrant glycosylation of α-dystroglycan (α-DG) is a common pathomechanism of these disorders. In addition, genetic and glycobiological evidence has shown that abnormal...
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