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Article: POSSIBLE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY GENE FOUND.(Main)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- May 4, 1989
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Byline: United Press International
In what could be a major step toward finding a treatment for muscular dystrophy, scientists reported they had discovered a gene that when defective may cause most cases of the devastating disease.
A team of British researchers said Wednesday it had isolated a gene on chromosome 6 that may be the blueprint for dystrophin, a recently discovered muscle protein that is apparently defective in muscular dystrophy victims. The gene shows a strong similarity to a previously identified gene associated with one form of the disease known as Duchenne muscular dystrophy, the scientists said.
"This is an extremely exciting ...