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Compound heterozygous POMT1 mutations in a Chinese family with autosomal recessive muscular dystrophy-dystroglycanopathy C1.
Journal of cellular and molecular medicine - 1 Jul 2017
Hu Pengzhi, Wu Song, Yuan Lamei, Lin Qiongfen, Zheng Wen, Xia Hong, Xu Hongbo, Guan Liping, Deng Hao
Abstract excerpt
Muscular dystrophy-dystroglycanopathy (MDDG) is a genetically and clinically heterogeneous group of muscular disorders, characterized by congenital muscular dystrophy or later-onset limb-girdle muscular dystrophy accompanied by brain and ocular abnormalities, resulting from aberrant alpha-dystroglycan glycosylation. Exome sequencing and Sanger sequencing were performed on a six-generation consanguineous Han...
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