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Compound heterozygous CAPN3 variants identified in a family with limb-girdle muscular dystrophy recessive 1.
Molecular medicine reports - 1 Jun 2021
Zhang Cheng, Zheng Xueping, Lu Deguo, Xu Lulu, Che Fengyuan, Liu Shiguo
Abstract excerpt
Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy recessive 1 (LGMDR1), a rare subtype of muscular dystrophy, is characterized by progressive muscle weakness and degeneration with a predominant presentation on the shoulder, pelvic and proximal limb muscles. Variants in calcium-activated neutral proteinase 3 (CAPN3), which encodes an enzyme, calpain 3, are considered the major cause of LGMDR1. The present study was conducted to...
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