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Fifty six (56) different RNA samples were prepared from different regions of muscle biopsies from 28 individuals (15 Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) patients, 13 normal controls).
The DMN gene was analyzed for mutations in 71 patients with various forms of muscular dystrophy and myopathy.
The desmuslin SNPs should be examined in a larger set of myopathy and muscular dystrophy patients to test this hypothesis.
In addition to DCM with conduction system disease and variable skeletal muscle involvement, mutations in the Lamin A/C gene [OMIM 150330] have been shown to cause autosomal dominant [ 11 ] and autosomal recessive [ 12 ] Emery-Dreifuss Muscular Dystrophy (EDMD), autosomal dominant limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 1B (LGMD) [ 13 ] , autosomal recessive type 2 Charcot-Marie Tooth type 2 [ 14 ] , familial partial lipodystrophy [ 15 16 ] , Mandibuloacral dysplasia [ 17 ] and Hutchinson-Gilford progeria [ 18 ] . The phenotypic spectrum from DCM to EDMD and limb girdle muscular dystrophy appears continuous.
‘When we used morpholinos to disrupt [the production of] dystroglycan, a laminin receptor, we got a good model for muscular dystrophy’, he explains.