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8149204

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:dateCreated
1994-5-9
pubmed:abstractText
We have investigated 59 Becker muscular dystrophy patients, representing 56 independent mutations, to test the hypothesis of predictability of muscle dystrophin expression and clinical phenotype based on location of dystrophin gene mutations. Partial intragenic deletions and duplications account for 82% of the independent mutations, of which 76.7% were deletions and 5.3% duplications. Mutations in which boundaries could be defined, were of in-frame type (35 out of 37, 94.6%, with two exceptions. Eighty-two percent of mutations were located at the distal part of the rod domain (exons 45-60), 9% at domain I (promoter through exon 9) and 9% at proximal and central parts of domain II. Domain I deleted patients tended to have a worse clinical phenotype, with earlier presentation, faster progression rate and lower dystrophin expression, while distal rod domain deleted patients showed a more classic Becker muscular dystrophy phenotype. Between these two groups, only the differences in the immunohistochemical patterns of dystrophin expression and disease progression rate were statistically significant. Partial clinical and biochemical heterogeneity was observed in the distal domain II patient group, due to the presence of few patients covering the extremities of clinical severity. Two asymptomatic patients had deletions located in the central (exons 41-44) and distal parts (exons 50-53) of the rod domain. Severe myalgia and cramps were often reported as early onset symptoms (18 out of 59): no correlation was found between this symptomatology and the location of the mutation. Relative levels of muscle dystrophin correlated with immunohistochemical patterns of subsarcolemma staining. Dystrophin levels (as estimated by 30 kDa antibody immuno-reactivity) correlated with age of reaching a moderate degree of muscle involvement as well as with delay in reaching that stage, a parameter of disease progression rate. Our data confirm that different Becker muscular dystrophy gene in-frame mutations have different effects on dystrophin expression and clinical severity, indicating several functional roles of the dystrophin domains.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
0006-8950
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
117 ( Pt 1)
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
N
pubmed:pagination
1-14
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1994
pubmed:articleTitle
Clinical variability in Becker muscular dystrophy. Genetic, biochemical and immunohistochemical correlates.
pubmed:affiliation
Institute of Clinical Neurology, Dino Ferrari Centre, University of Milano, Italy.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't