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Molecular analysis of the Duchenne muscular dystrophy gene in patients with Becker muscular dystrophy presenting with dilated cardiomyopathy.
Muscle & nerve - 1 Nov 1993
Yoshida K, Ikeda S, Nakamura A, Kagoshima M, Takeda S, Shoji S, Yanagisawa N
Abstract excerpt
Molecular analysis of the Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) gene was performed on 4 unrelated patients with Becker muscular dystrophy (BMD) presenting with dilated cardiomyopathy. Two patients with a deletion involving exon 1 were quite unique in that they developed fatal myocardial involvement in their teens, despite the absence of significant muscular weakness. The deletion found in these patients comprised the...
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