Genetic analysis of 62 Chinese families with Duchenne muscular dystrophy and strategies of prenatal diagnosis in a single center

• Main Authors: Jingjing Zhang (Author), Dingyuan Ma (Author), Gang Liu (Author), Yuguo Wang (Author), An Liu (Author), Li Li (Author), Chunyu Luo (Author), Ping Hu (Author), Zhengfeng Xu (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2019-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a severe X-linked recessive neuromuscular disorder. Patients with DMD usually have severe and fatal symptoms, including progressive irreversible muscle weakness and atrophy complicated with gastrocnemius muscle pseudohypertrophy. DMD is caused...