Assessment of disease progression in dysferlinopathy: A 1-year cohort study

Ursula Moore1, Marni Jacobs1, Meredith K James1

  • 1From the John Walton Muscular Dystrophy Research Centre (U.M., M.K.J., A.G.M., R.F.-T., M.E., K.B., R.M.L., H.H., H.L., K.B., V.S.), Newcastle University and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, MRC Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases, Institute of Genetic Medicine, Central Parkway, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK; Center for Translational Science (M.J., J.F., A. Cnaan), Division of Biostatistics and Study Methodology, Cooperative International Neuromuscular Research Group (T.D., B.D.), and Department of Neurology (D.X.B.-G.), Children's National Health System; Pediatrics, Epidemiology and Biostatistics (M.J., A. Cnaan), George Washington University, Washington, DC; Neuromuscular Area (R.F.-T.), Biodonostia Health Research Institute, Neurology Service, Donostia University Hospital, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain; Jain Foundation (L.E.R., P.M.), Seattle, WA; Magnetic Resonance Centre (A.M.B.), Institute of Cellular Medicine, Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK; AIM & CEA NMR Laboratory (P.G.C.), Institute of Myology, Pitié-Salpêtrière University Hospital, 47-83, Paris, France; Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital (L.P.L., L.A., K.M.B., J.R.M.), The Ohio State University, Columbus; Institute for Neuroscience and Muscle Research (K.R., M. Hutchence, K.J.J.), Children's Hospital at Westmead, University of Sydney, Australia; Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford (T.D.), 24349, Neurology, Palo Alto, CA; Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (E.M.-M., I.P.-H.), Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain; Neuroscience Institute (S.H., M.S., E.B., S. Sparks), Carolinas Neuromuscular/ALS-MDA Center, Carolinas HealthCare System, Charlotte, NC; Department of Physical Rehabilitation (A.A., C. Sakamoto, T.T., H.Y.), National Center Hospital, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Tokyo, Japan; Institut de Myologie (A. Canal, G.O., V.D., J.-Y.H., T.S.), AP-HP, GH Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France; Neurorehabilitation Unit (J.B.M.), Rehabilitation Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío Sevilla; Neurophysiotherapy Department (N.S.-A.P.), Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío, Seville, Spain; Friedrich-Baur-Institute (S. Thiele, S.K., O.S.-K. M.C.W.), Department of Neurology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Germany; Department of Neurology (C. Siener, J.S., J.M.F., M. Harms, A.P.), Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO; Centre de Reference des Maladies Neuromusculaires PACA Réunion Rhone Alpes (B.V., E.S.-C.), Hopital de la Timone, Aix-Marseille Université, France; ELAN-PHYSIO (J.P., E.M.), Praxis für Physiotherapie Maron; Charite Muscle Research Unit (U.G., S. Spuler), Experimental and Clinical Research Center, a joint cooperation of the Charité Medical Faculty and the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany; Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences (C.T.R., J.W.D.), Stanford University School of Medicine, CA; NIH (D.X.B.-G.), Bethesda, MD; Neuromuscular Unit (C.P.), Department of Neurology, Hospital U. Virgen del Rocío/Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla, Spain; Department of Neurology (S. Takeda, M.M.-Y.), National Center Hospital, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Tokyo, Japan; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red en Enfermedades Raras (J.D.-M.); Neuromuscular Disorders Unit (J.D.-M.), Neurology Department, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain; and Department of Neuroscience (L.B., C. Semplicini, E.P.), University of Padova, Italy.

Neurology
|January 11, 2019
PubMed
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