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Homozygous missense variant in POPDC3 causes recessive limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 26.
The journal of gene medicine - 1 Apr 2022
Ullah Anwar, Lin Zhaohan, Younus Muhammad, Shafiq Sarfraz, Khan Shazia, Rasheed Memoona, Mahmood Arif, Alqosaibi Amany I, Alshehri Mohammed Ali, Khan Amjad, Umair Muhammad
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BACKGROUND: Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy (LGMD) comprises a heterogeneous group of diseases, affecting different muscles, predominantly skeletal muscles and cardiac muscles of the body. LGMD is classified into two main subtypes A and B, which are further subclassified into eight dominant and thirty recessive subtypes. Three genes, namely POPDC1, POPDC2 and POPDC3, encode popeye domain-containing protein...
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