| Literature DB >> 23609411 |
Rebecca J Fairclough1, Matthew J Wood, Kay E Davies.
Abstract
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a devastating progressive disease for which there is currently no effective treatment except palliative therapy. There are several promising genetic approaches, including viral delivery of the missing dystrophin gene, read-through of translation stop codons, exon skipping to restore the reading frame and increased expression of the compensatory utrophin gene. The lessons learned from these approaches will be applicable to many other disorders.Entities:
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Year: 2013 PMID: 23609411 DOI: 10.1038/nrg3460
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nat Rev Genet ISSN: 1471-0056 Impact factor: 53.242