From dystrophinopathy to sarcoglycanopathy: evolution of a concept of muscular dystrophy.

doi:10.1002/(sici)1097-4598(199804)21:4<421::aid-mus1>3.0.co;2-b

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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

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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 fro...

Topics

Animals
Cytoskeletal Proteins
Dystrophin
Humans
Membrane Proteins
Muscle, Skeletal
Muscular Dystrophies
Mutation
Prevalence
Protein Structure, Secondary
RNA, Messenger

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