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Low-level dystrophin expression attenuating the dystrophinopathy phenotype.
Neuromuscular disorders : NMD - 1 Feb 2018
Waldrop Megan A, Gumienny Felecia, El Husayni Saleh, Frank Diane E, Weiss Robert B, Flanigan Kevin M
Abstract excerpt
The reading frame rule suggests that Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) results from DMD mutations causing an out-of-frame transcript, whereas the milder Becker muscular dystrophy results from mutations causing an in-frame transcript. However, predicted nonsense mutations may instead result in altered splicing and an in-frame transcript. Here we report a 10-year-old boy with a predicted nonsense mutation in exon...
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