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Deletion of Dystrophin In-Frame Exon 5 Leads to a Severe Phenotype: Guidance for Exon Skipping Strategies.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2016
Toh Zhi Yon Charles, Thandar Aung-Htut May, Pinniger Gavin, Adams Abbie M, Krishnaswarmy Sudarsan, Wong Brenda L, Fletcher Sue, Wilton Steve D
Abstract excerpt
Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy severity depends upon the nature and location of the DMD gene lesion and generally correlates with the dystrophin open reading frame. However, there are striking exceptions where an in-frame genomic deletion leads to severe pathology or protein-truncating mutations (nonsense or frame-shifting indels) manifest as mild disease. Exceptions to the dystrophin reading frame rule...
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