Duchenne muscular dystrophy : mutation profiling in view of the emerging gene-based therapies

Includes bibliographical references (leaves 97-115). === Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) is a lethal, X-linked, recessive muscle-wasting disorder affecting 1 in 3 500 live male births worldwide, for which only palliative care is available to date. Large exonic deletions or duplications are found i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Esterhuizen, Alina
Other Authors: Goliath, Rene
Format: Dissertation
Language:English
Published: University of Cape Town 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10465