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MLPA Application in Clinical Diagnosis of DMD/BMD in Shanghai.
Journal of clinical laboratory analysis - 1 Sept 2015
Ji Xing, Zhang Jingmin, Xu Yan, Long Fei, Sun Wei, Liu Xiaoqin, Chen Yingwei, Jiang Wenting
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy (DMD/BMD) are X-linked recessive disorders caused by mutation in dystrophin gene. We reported 3-year clinic experience from a single hospital in Shanghai using multiplex ligation dependent probe amplification (MLPA) assay to detect DMD mutations. METHODS: Four hundred and fifty-one males and 184 females, who were clinically diagnosed as DMD/BMD patients or...
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