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From dystrophinopathy to sarcoglycanopathy: evolution of a concept of muscular dystrophy.
Muscle & nerve - 1 Apr 1998
Ozawa E, Noguchi S, Mizuno Y, Hagiwara Y, Yoshida M
Abstract excerpt
Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophies are collectively termed dystrophinopathy. Dystrophinopathy and severe childhood autosomal recessive muscular dystrophy (SCARMD) are clinically very similar and had not been distinguished in the early 20th century. SCARMD was first classified separately from dystrophinopathy due to differences in the mode of inheritance. Studies performed several years ago clarified some...
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