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Molecular characterisation of Duchenne muscular dystrophy and phenotypic correlation.
Journal of the neurological sciences - 7 May 1998
Mital A, Kumari D, Gupta M, Goyle S
Abstract excerpt
Dystrophin gene was analysed in 32 unrelated DMD families (46 subjects: 32 index cases and 14 sibs) for the presence of deletions by mPCR for 27 exons and cDNA probes for the entire gene. Deletions were identified in 32 patients (25 index cases and seven sibs) from 25 families. The concordance between the clinical phenotype and 'reading frame' hypothesis was observed in 24 (75%) cases. Of these, nine patients...
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