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[Gene analysis in patients with muscular dystrophy: alpha-sarcoglycan (adhalin) gene mutations in patients with malignant limb-girdle muscular dystrophy].
Rinsho byori. The Japanese journal of clinical pathology - 1 Feb 1997
Akaike M, Kawai H
Abstract excerpt
Malignant limb-girdle muscular dystrophy (MLGMD) was proposed by Miyoshi et al. in 1966 as a clinical and genetic entity of muscular dystrophy, with clinical features similar to Duchenne muscular dystrophy but showing autosomal recessive inheritance. Recently, deficiency of alpha-sarcoglycan (adhalin), which is one of the components of dystrophin-glycoprotein complex, in the skeletal muscle has been found in...
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