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Severe childhood autosomal recessive muscular dystrophy with the deficiency of the 50 kDa dystrophin-associated glycoprotein maps to chromosome 13q12.
Human molecular genetics - 1 Sept 1993
Azibi K, Bachner L, Beckmann J S, Matsumura K, Hamouda E, Chaouch M, Chaouch A, Ait-Ouarab R, Vignal A, Weissenbach J
Abstract excerpt
We have recently demonstrated the specific deficiency for the 50 kDa dystrophin-associated glycoprotein (50DAG) in Algerian patients afflicted with severe childhood autosomal recessive muscular dystrophy with DMD-like phenotype (SCARMD). A similar disease affecting Tunisian patients was linked to chromosome 13q but the status of the 50DAG was not investigated. Here we show by linkage analysis of Algerian families...
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