Unusual expression and very mild course of Xp21 muscular dystrophy (Becker type) in a 60-year-old man with 26 percent deletion of the dystrophin gene.
Neurology
; 44(3 Pt 1): 541-3, 1994 Mar.
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| ID: mdl-8145928
ABSTRACT
A 54-year-old farmer with a negative family history had had mild proximal weakness for the previous 4 years. Clinical examination showed marked scoliosis, barrel-shaped chest, diffuse hypotrophy, and mild proximal weakness. Creatine kinase was 938 U/l; electrocardiography and echocardiography were normal. EMG disclosed myopathic changes. Muscle biopsy showed slight, nonspecific alterations. Dystrophin was present and normally distributed with antibodies against the C-terminal and N-terminal, whereas it was not recognized by the antibody against the rod domain. Western blotting detected an abnormal molecular weight protein of 320 kd (normal, 427 kd). Southern blot analysis revealed a deletion from exon 21 to exon 44, corresponding to 26% of the coding region of dystrophin. Six years' follow-up did not disclose progression of the muscle disease.
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Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Dystrophin
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Gene Deletion
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Muscular Dystrophies
Limits:
Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
Language:
En
Year:
1994
Type:
Article