Low incidence of limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 2C revealed by a mutation study in Japanese patients clinically diagnosed with DMD

• Main Authors: Maruyama Koichi (Author), Awano Hiroyuki (Author), Zhang Zhujun (Author), Itoh Kyoko (Author), Takeshima Yasuhiro (Author), Okizuka Yo (Author), Kumagai Toshiyuki (Author), Yagi Mariko (Author), Matsuo Masafumi (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2010-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 2C (LGMD2C) is an autosomal recessive muscle dystrophy that resembles Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). Although DMD is known to affect one in every 3500 males regardless of race, a widespread fou...