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Blood test to detect DMD

• Last Edited: 26 Sep 2009
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Researchers have developed a simple and affordable blood test that detects the most common form of muscular dystrophy (MD) in more than 95 percent of cases. Until now, gene mutations causing Duche...

Tags: Biopsy, Xchromosome, dystrophin, DMD mutations.

Late Starters - A review by Dr Karl Bettelheim

• Last Edited: 30 Jul 2010
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Article submitted by Dr Karl Bettelheim published on the 3rd of June 2009Late StartersThere have been a number of papers recently, which are very relevant to potential DMD treatments and maybe eve...

Tags: dystrophin protein, amino acid coding, DMD mutations, AUG codons.