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The seventh form of autosomal recessive limb-girdle muscular dystrophy is mapped to 17q11-12.
American journal of human genetics - 1 Jul 1997
Moreira E S, Vainzof M, Marie S K, Sertié A L, Zatz M, Passos-Bueno M R
Abstract excerpt
The group of autosomal recessive (AR) muscular dystrophies includes, among others, two main clinical entities, the limb-girdle muscular dystrophies (LGMDs) and the distal muscular dystrophies. The former are characterized mainly by muscle wasting of the upper and lower limbs, with a wide range of clinical severity. This clinical heterogeneity has been demonstrated at the molecular level, since the genes for six...
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