The molecular basis for Duchenne versus Becker muscular dystrophy: correlation of severity with type of deletion.

Primer-Directed Enzymatic Amplification of DNA with a Thermostable DNA Polymerase

1988 • 17,059 citations

Complete cloning of the duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) cDNA and preliminary genomic organization of the DMD gene in normal and affected individuals

1987 • 2,353 citations

The complete sequence of dystrophin predicts a rod-shaped cytoskeletal protein

1988 • 1,501 citations

Deletion screening of the Duchenne muscular dystrophy locus via multiplex DNA amplification

1988 • 1,260 citations

An explanation for the phenotypic differences between patients bearing partial deletions of the DMD locus

1988 • 1,140 citations

Characterization of Dystrophin in Muscle-Biopsy Specimens from Patients with Duchenne's or Becker's Muscular Dystrophy

1988 • 910 citations

Frame-Shift Deletions in Patients with Duchenne and Becker Muscular Dystrophy

1988 • 276 citations

A cDNA clone from the Duchenne/Becker muscular dystrophy gene

1987 • 261 citations

Molecular and clinical correlations of deletions leading to Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophies

1989 • 189 citations

Intragenic deletions in 21 Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD)/Becker muscular dystrophy (BMD) families studied with the dystrophin cDNA: location of breakpoints on HindIII and BglII exon-containing fragment maps, meiotic and mitotic origin of the mutations.

1988 • 154 citations

Localization and cloning of Xp21 deletion breakpoints involved in muscular dystrophy

1987 • 133 citations

A deletion hot spot in the Duchenne muscular dystrophy gene

1988 • 114 citations

The chicken dystrophin cDNA: striking conservation of the C-terminal coding and 3′ untranslated regions between man and chicken.

1988 • 106 citations

A 10-megabase physical map of human Xp21, including the Duchenne muscular dystrophy gene

1988 • 105 citations

Molecular deletion patterns in Duchenne and Becker type muscular dystrophy

1989 • 86 citations

Gene deletions in X-linked muscular dystrophy.

1989 • 73 citations

Long-range genomic map of the Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) gene: Isolation and use of J66 (DXS268), a distal intragenic marker

1987 • 65 citations

Complementary DNA probes for the Duchenne muscular dystrophy locus demonstrate a previously undetectable deletion in a patient with dystrophic myopathy, glycerol kinase deficiency, and congenital adrenal hypoplasia.

1989 • 57 citations

EFFECTIVE STRATEGY FOR PRENATAL PREDICTION OF DUCHENNE AND BECKER MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY

1987 • 53 citations

Myopathy in complex glycerol kinase deficiency patients is due to 3' deletions of the dystrophin gene.

1988 • 32 citations