Facioscapulohumeral Disease as a myodevelopmental disease: Applying Ockham's razor to its various features.

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Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) is an exclusively human neuromuscular disease. In the last decades the cause of FSHD was identified: the loss of epigenetic repression of the D4Z4 repeat on chromosome 4q35 resulting in inappropriate transcription of DUX4. This is a consequence of a reduction of the array below 11 units (FSHD1) or of a mutation in methylating enzymes (FSHD2). Both require the presence...

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