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A Founder Allele in SGCG Combining Missense Variant and Multi-Exon Duplication in Turkish Patients With Sarcoglycanopathy.
Clinical genetics - 1 Feb 2026
Sezer Abdullah, Büke Afife, Kazan Hasan Hüseyin, Kablan Ahmet, Alay Mustafa Tarık, Talim Beril, Yüksel Deniz, Saat Hanife
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Sarcoglycanopathies are autosomal recessive muscular dystrophies characterized by progressive muscle weakness and represent a major subset of limb-girdle muscular dystrophies (LGMDs). They result from pathogenic variants in sarcoglycan genes (SGCA, SGCB, SGCD, and SGCG), which encode subunits of a tetrameric transmembrane complex that stabilizes the dystrophin-associated glycoprotein complex. Among these, SGCG is...
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