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After reviewing medical records, we studied eight male patients who had been diagnosed as having DMD based on pathology lab report, disease progression and abnormalities in the level of dystrophin expression either by immunofluorescence or western blot analysis.
Patients with autosomal dominant limb girdle muscular dystrophy type 1C, caused by mutations in caveolin-3 [ 19, 20], or autosomal recessive LGMD2B, caused by mutations in dysferlin, show normal dystrophin and sarcoglycan-sarcospan complex staining patterns [ 21].
Dystrophin and its associated proteins are thought to be involved in the anchoring of the muscle cell membrane to the extracellular matrix [ 1], and the absence of many of these proteins can lead to the phenotype of muscular dystrophy [ 2].
Although none of the patients had a family history of DMD, all were determined to be highly likely to have dystrophin gene mutations, as opposed to other genetic causes of muscular dystrophy (see Table 1).
Sarcospan is a member of the dystrophin associated protein complex present in skeletal and extraocular muscle [ 4, 5, 6].