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p53-independent DUX4 pathology in cell and animal models of facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy.
Disease models & mechanisms - 1 Oct 2017
Bosnakovski Darko, Gearhart Micah D, Toso Erik A, Recht Olivia O, Cucak Anja, Jain Abhinav K, Barton Michelle C, Kyba Michael
Abstract excerpt
Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) is a genetically dominant myopathy caused by mutations that disrupt repression of the normally silent DUX4 gene, which encodes a transcription factor that has been shown to interfere with myogenesis when misexpressed at very low levels in myoblasts and to cause cell death when overexpressed at high levels. A previous report using adeno-associated virus to deliver high...
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