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    Production of Duchenne muscular dystrophy cellular model using CRISPR-Cas9 exon deletion strategy

    Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) is a progressive muscle wasting disorder caused by loss-of-function mutations in the dystrophin gene. Although the search for a definitive cure has failed to date, extensive e...

    Farzaneh Alizadeh, Yousef Jafari Abraghan in Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry (2024)

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    Characterizing Homozygous Variants in Bardet-Biedl Syndrome-Associated Genes Within Iranian Families: Unveiling a Founder Variant in BBS2, c.471G>A

    Bardet–Biedl syndrome (BBS) is a rare inherited ciliopathy disorder characterized by a broad spectrum of clinical symptoms such as retinal dystrophy, obesity, polydactyly, genitourinary and kidney anomalies, l...

    Masoumeh Heidari Feizabadi, Masoome Alerasool, Atieh Eslahi in Biochemical Genetics (2024)

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    TMEM263: a novel candidate gene implicated in human autosomal recessive severe lethal skeletal dysplasia

    Skeletal dysplasia is a common, clinically and genetically heterogeneous disorder in the human population. An increasing number of different genes are being identified causing this disorder. We used whole exom...

    Mahsa Sadat Asl Mohajeri, Atieh Eslahi, Zeinab Khazaii in Human Genomics (2021)

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    Loss of UGP2 in brain leads to a severe epileptic encephalopathy, emphasizing that bi-allelic isoform-specific start-loss mutations of essential genes can cause genetic diseases

    Developmental and/or epileptic encephalopathies (DEEs) are a group of devastating genetic disorders, resulting in early-onset, therapy-resistant seizures and developmental delay. Here we report on 22 individua...

    Elena Perenthaler, Anita Nikoncuk, Soheil Yousefi in Acta Neuropathologica (2020)