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Therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy: renewed optimism from genetic approaches.
Nature reviews. Genetics - 1 Jun 2013
Fairclough Rebecca J, Wood Matthew J, Davies Kay E
Abstract excerpt
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a devastating progressive disease for which there is currently no effective treatment except palliative therapy. There are several promising genetic approaches, including viral delivery of the missing dystrophin gene, read-through of translation stop codons, exon skipping to restore the reading frame and increased expression of the compensatory utrophin gene. The lessons...
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