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SUBMITTER: Chan SHS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5417024 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Apr-Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Child neurology open 20150401 2
The aim of this collaborative study on Duchenne muscular dystrophy and Becker muscular dystrophy is to determine the prevalence and to develop data on such patients as a prelude to the development of registry in Hong Kong. Information on clinical and molecular findings, and patient care, was systematically collected in 2011 and 2012 from all Pediatric Neurology Units in Hong Kong. Ninety patients with dystrophinopathy were identified, and 83% has Duchenne muscular dystrophy. The overall prevalen ...[more]