Dominantly inherited muscle disorders: understanding their complexity and exploring therapeutic approaches.

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Treatments for disabling and life-threatening hereditary muscle disorders are finally close to becoming a reality. Research has thus far focused primarily on recessive forms of muscle disease. The gene replacement strategies that are commonly employed for recessive, loss-of-function disorders are not readily translatable to most dominant myopathies owing to the presence of a normal chromosome in each nucleus,...

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