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A splice-site mutation causing ovine McArdle's disease.
Neuromuscular disorders : NMD - 1 Jul 1997
Tan P, Allen J G, Wilton S D, Akkari P A, Huxtable C R, Laing N G
Abstract excerpt
McArdle's disease is an autosomal recessive myopathy with symptoms of exercise intolerance caused by deficiency of the enzyme muscle glycogen phosphorylase which releases glucose for contraction during exercise. The human cDNA has been sequenced and disease-causing mutations identified. An ovine equivalent of McArdle's disease has been diagnosed and the mutation responsible identified by PCR-amplification of the...
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