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[Duchenne muscular dystrophy in a girl with chromosomal translocation]
L C Werneck1, S M Lemos, N Magdalena
1Especialidade de Neurologia, Departamento de Clínica Médica - Hospital de Clinicas, Curitiba PR - Brasil.
Arquivos De Neuro-Psiquiatria
|December 1, 1988
Abstract:
It is reported the case of an 8-year-old girl with clinical and laboratory findings suggestive of Duchenne muscular dystrophy who had a chromosome translocation involving the X chromosome, 46,X,t(Bp+,Xq-). A review about Duchenne muscular dystrophy in females is made, with emphasis about chromosome abnormalities, mainly chromosome translocations.