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  • Title: Asymptomatic Becker muscular dystrophy in a family with a multiexon deletion.
    Author: Ferreiro V, Giliberto F, Muñiz GM, Francipane L, Marzese DM, Mampel A, Roqué M, Frechtel GD, Szijan I.
    Journal: Muscle Nerve; 2009 Feb; 39(2):239-43. PubMed ID: 19012301.
    Abstract:
    We report a Becker muscular dystrophy (BMD) family with one 5-year-old affected patient and a 69-year-old asymptomatic grandfather. Dystrophin gene multiplex polymerase chain reaction and multiplex ligation-dependant probe amplification analysis showed that both males carried an in-frame deletion of exons 45-55. Segregation analysis revealed two additional asymptomatic boys in this family. Our finding supports previous predictions that exons 45-55 are the optimal multiexon skipping target in antisense gene therapy to transform the severe Duchenne muscular dystrophy into the milder BMD, or even asymptomatic, phenotype.
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