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Muscular Dystrophy
Known as:
Dystrophies, Muscular
, Muscular dystrophy NOS
, Dystrophy, Muscular
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A group of inherited progressive muscle disorders characterized by muscle weakness and eventual death of the muscle tissues. Examples include…
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Alpha-B Crystallinopathy with Cataract
Bassoe syndrome
Becker Muscular Dystrophy
Bethlem myopathy
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CONGENITAL DISORDER OF GLYCOSYLATION, TYPE Ie
Connective and Soft Tissue
Fukuyama Type Congenital Muscular Dystrophy
In Blood
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Broader (5)
Hereditary Diseases
Metabolic Diseases
Musculoskeletal Diseases
Myopathy
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Highly Cited
2016
Highly Cited
2016
In vivo genome editing improves muscle function in a mouse model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy
Christopher E. Nelson
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Chady H Hakim
,
+11 authors
C. Gersbach
Science
2016
Corpus ID: 206643555
Editing can help build stronger muscles Much of the controversy surrounding the gene-editing technology called CRISPR/Cas9…
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Review
2012
Review
2012
The muscular dystrophies.
K. Flanigan
Seminars in neurology
2012
Corpus ID: 1948148
The muscular dystrophies are disorders of progressive muscular degeneration and weakness. As a group they display clinical…
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Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
Defective membrane repair in dysferlin-deficient muscular dystrophy
Dimple Bansal
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K. Miyake
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+5 authors
K. Campbell
Nature
2003
Corpus ID: 4402938
Muscular dystrophy includes a diverse group of inherited muscle diseases characterized by wasting and weakness of skeletal muscle…
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Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Loss of a-Type Lamin Expression Compromises Nuclear Envelope Integrity Leading to Muscular Dystrophy
T. Sullivan
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D. Escalante-Alcalde
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+5 authors
B. Burke
The Journal of cell biology
1999
Corpus ID: 908392
The nuclear lamina is a protein meshwork lining the nucleoplasmic face of the inner nuclear membrane and represents an important…
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Highly Cited
1995
Highly Cited
1995
Profiles of neuromuscular diseases. Becker's muscular dystrophy.
C. McDonald
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R. Abresch
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G. Carter
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W. Fowler
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E. R. Johnson
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D. Kilmer
American journal of physical medicine…
1995
Corpus ID: 41254348
Fifteen subjects with Becker's muscular dystrophy (BMD) were studied prospectively over a 10-yr period to provide a profile of…
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Highly Cited
1994
Highly Cited
1994
Identification of a novel X-linked gene responsible for Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy
S. Bione
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E. Maestrini
,
+4 authors
D. Toniolo
Nature Genetics
1994
Corpus ID: 7719215
Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy (EDMD) is an X-linked recessive disorder characterized by slowly progressing contractures…
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Highly Cited
1992
Highly Cited
1992
An unstable triplet repeat in a gene related to myotonic muscular dystrophy.
Y. Fu
,
A. Pizzuti
,
+7 authors
P. de Jong
Science
1992
Corpus ID: 28324152
Synthetic oligonucleotides containing GC-rich triplet sequences were used in a scanning strategy to identify unstable genetic…
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Highly Cited
1991
Highly Cited
1991
The mdx mouse diaphragm reproduces the degenerative changes of Duchenne muscular dystrophy
H. Stedman
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H. Sweeney
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+7 authors
A. Kelly
Nature
1991
Corpus ID: 4302451
ALTHOUGH murine X-linked muscular dystrophy (mdx) and Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) are genetically homologous and both…
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Highly Cited
1989
Highly Cited
1989
The molecular basis of muscular dystrophy in the mdx mouse: a point mutation.
P. Sicinski
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Y. Geng
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A. S. Ryder-Cook
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E. Barnard
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M. Darlison
,
P. J. Barnard
Science
1989
Corpus ID: 39661171
The mdx mouse is an X-linked myopathic mutant, an animal model for human Duchenne muscular dystrophy. In both mouse and man the…
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Highly Cited
1984
Highly Cited
1984
X chromosome-linked muscular dystrophy (mdx) in the mouse.
G. Bulfield
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W. Siller
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P. Wight
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K. Moore
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…
1984
Corpus ID: 11520096
An X chromosome-linked mouse mutant (gene symbol, mdx) has been found that has elevated plasma levels of muscle creatine kinase…
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