Two novel missense mutations in the myostatin gene identified in Japanese patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy

BACKGROUND: Myostatin is a negative regulator of skeletal muscle growth. Truncating mutations in the myostatin gene have been reported to result in gross muscle hypertrophy. Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), the most common lethal muscle wasting disease, is a result of an absence of muscle dystroph...

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Main Authors: Nishiyama, Atsushi, Takeshima, Yasuhiro, Saiki, Kayoko, Narukage, Akiko, Oyazato, Yoshinobu, Yagi, Mariko, Matsuo, Masafumi
Format: Artigo
Sprog:Inglês
Udgivet: BioMed Central 2007
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Research Article
Online adgang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1855920/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17428346
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2350-8-19
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