Muscular dystrophy is a heterogeneous genetic disease that affects skeletal and cardiac muscle. The genetic defects associated with muscular dystrophy include mutations in dystrophin and its associated glycoproteins, the sarcoglycans. Furthermore, defects in dystrophin have been shown to cause a dis
Muscular dystrophy in Saskatchewan Hutterites
β Scribed by Shokeir, M. H. K. ;Rozdilsky, B. ;Opitz, John M. ;Reynolds, James F.
- Book ID
- 102699482
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1985
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 600 KB
- Volume
- 22
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0148-7299
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