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Assessment of the 50-kDa dystrophin-associated glycoprotein in Brazilian patients with severe childhood autosomal recessive muscular dystrophy.
Journal of the neurological sciences - 1 May 1994
Zatz M, Matsumura K, Vainzof M, Passos-Bueno M R, Pavanello R C, Marie S K, Campbell K P
Abstract excerpt
Recently, we have demonstrated the specific deficiency of the 50-kDa dystrophin-associated glycoprotein (50DAG) in severe childhood autosomal recessive muscular dystrophy with Duchenne-like phenotype (SCARMD or AR-DLMD), a disease first reported in Tunisia and now presumed to be prevalent in North Africa and the Middle East. Here we demonstrate the deficiency of the 50DAG in one caucasoid and 5 negroid Brazilian...
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