Article
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 Nort...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Age of Onset
- Biopsy
- Brazil
- Child
- Cytoskeletal Proteins
- Female
- Genes, Recessive
- Humans
- Immunohistochemistry
- Male
- Membrane Glycoproteins
