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A novel splicing silencer generated by DMD exon 45 deletion junction could explain upstream exon 44 skipping that modifies dystrophinopathy.
Journal of human genetics - 1 Aug 2014
Dwianingsih Ery Kus, Malueka Rusdy Ghazali, Nishida Atsushi, Itoh Kyoko, Lee Tomoko, Yagi Mariko, Iijima Kazumoto, Takeshima Yasuhiro, Matsuo Masafumi
Abstract excerpt
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), a progressive muscle-wasting disease, is mostly caused by exon deletion mutations in the DMD gene. The reading frame rule explains that out-of-frame deletions lead to muscle dystrophin deficiency in DMD. In outliers to this rule, deletion junction sequences have never previously been explored as splicing modulators. In a Japanese case, we identified a single exon 45 deletion in...
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