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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus
SUBMITTER: antoine Muchir
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-6399 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Human molecular genetics 20070613 15
Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy (EDMD) is an inherited disorder characterized by slowly progressive skeletal muscle weakness in a humero-peroneal distribution, early contractures and prominent cardiomyopathy with conduction block. Mutations in EMD, encoding emerin, and LMNA, encoding A-type lamins, respectively, cause X-linked and autosomal dominant EDMD. Emerin and A-type lamins are proteins of the inner membrane of the nuclear envelope. Whereas the genetic cause of EDMD has been described an ...[more]