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Reducing bodies and myofibrillar myopathy features in FHL1 muscular dystrophy.
Neurology - 29 Nov 2011
Selcen Duygu, Bromberg Mark B, Chin Steven S, Engel Andrew G
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Some pathologic features of the FHL1 myopathies and the myofibrillar myopathies (MFMs) overlap; we therefore searched for mutations in FHL1 in our cohort of 50 patients with genetically undiagnosed MFM. METHODS: Mutations in FHL1 were identified by direct sequencing. Polymorphisms were excluded by using allele-specific PCR in 200 control subjects. Structural changes in muscle were analyzed by...
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