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Novel FKRP mutations in a Japanese MDC1C sibship clinically diagnosed with Fukuyama congenital muscular dystrophy.
Brain & development - 1 Nov 2017
Yoshioka Mieko, Kobayashi Kazuhiro, Toda Tatsushi
Abstract excerpt
INTRODUCTION: Fukuyama congenital muscular dystrophy (FCMD), caused by fukutin mutations, is the most common form of Japanese CMD. We followed a Japanese CMD sibship without fukutin mutation, and herein identified new FKRP mutations causing MDC1C rarely reported in Oriental countries. PATIENTS: Two affected siblings, individuals 1 (I-1, male) and 2 (I-2, female), were born uneventfully to unaffected,...
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