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Dystrophin: Genotypes & Phenotype Correlations

Autosomal DominantMuscular DystrophyOMIM 166490
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Overview

From WUSTL Neuromuscular

Mutation types & size Point Missense Splice Pseudoexons Deletions Chromosome Duplications Reading frame Dystrophin, Other Modifiers & Other genes Dystrophin gene mutations: Types & Size General: > 3,500 different mutations described Missense/nonsense (690) Splice (300) Regulatory (1) Small deletions (433) Small insertions (163) Small indels (49) Gross deletions (1,268) Gross insertions/duplications (571) Complex rearrangements (100) Point mutations, dystrophin 10 Locations Along entire gene > 40% 3' of exon 55 Many in splice acceptor/donor sites or regulatory domains Promoter region: Associate

OMIM Entries

OMIM #166490OMIM #604710OMIM #109535OMIM #188060OMIM #619994

External Resources

WUSTL Neuromuscular
Washington University Disease Center
OMIM
Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man
PubMed
Biomedical Literature
GeneReviews
NCBI Expert-Authored Reviews
Orphanet
Portal for Rare Diseases
NORD
National Organization for Rare Disorders

Data sourced from the Washington University Neuromuscular Disease Center. For clinical use, always refer to primary sources.