Becker muscular dystrophy due to an inversion of exons 23 and 24 of the DMD gene

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 822-825

  Flanigan, Kevin M ^a   Dunn, Diane ^b   Aaron Larsen, C ^b   Medne, Livija ^c   Bönnemann, Carsten B ^c   Weiss, Robert B ^b  

^a NATIONWIDE CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Becker muscular dystrophy; CGH; Inversion mutation; MLPA; SCAIP

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BECKER MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; CASE REPORT; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; EXON; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIPLEX LIGATION DEPENDENT PROBE AMPLIFICATION; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE CONDITION AMPLIFICATION INTERNAL PRIMER;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DYSTROPHIN; EXONS; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY, DUCHENNE; SEQUENCE INVERSION;

EID: 80054851861     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.22226     Document Type: Article

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