We describe a 3-year-old boy who, at age of 8months, during investigations for upper respiratory tract infection was found to have an incidental grossly elevated CK of 20,000UI/l. Investigations showed only mild calf hypertrophy and absent Gower's sign, normal cognitive function. Electromyography (EMG) showed myopathic features. Electrocardiography and echocardiography were normal. His muscle biopsy revealed myopathic features indicating Duchenne-type dystrophy. Immunohistochemistry for dystrophin N-terminal, C-terminal and mid-rod antibodies analysis showed the complete absence of dystrophin in the muscle fibers. Genetic studies showed a 141.1Kb deletion removing muscle promoter, muscle exon 1, Purkinje promoter, Purkinje exon 1, dystrophin muscle enhancers similar to one previously reported in a DMD patient who exhibited some residual expression of dystrophin. The difference in dystrophin expression between these two patients might be due to the extension of deletions. The precise delimitation of the macrodeletion here described provides a better understanding of functional organization of the 5' end of the DMD gene.

A new deletion in 5’-end of dystrophin gene removing M and P promoters and dystrophin muscle enhancers

CAU, MILENA;ADDIS, MARIA;SERRENTI, MARIANNA;CHESSA, ROBERTA;
2012-01-01

Abstract

We describe a 3-year-old boy who, at age of 8months, during investigations for upper respiratory tract infection was found to have an incidental grossly elevated CK of 20,000UI/l. Investigations showed only mild calf hypertrophy and absent Gower's sign, normal cognitive function. Electromyography (EMG) showed myopathic features. Electrocardiography and echocardiography were normal. His muscle biopsy revealed myopathic features indicating Duchenne-type dystrophy. Immunohistochemistry for dystrophin N-terminal, C-terminal and mid-rod antibodies analysis showed the complete absence of dystrophin in the muscle fibers. Genetic studies showed a 141.1Kb deletion removing muscle promoter, muscle exon 1, Purkinje promoter, Purkinje exon 1, dystrophin muscle enhancers similar to one previously reported in a DMD patient who exhibited some residual expression of dystrophin. The difference in dystrophin expression between these two patients might be due to the extension of deletions. The precise delimitation of the macrodeletion here described provides a better understanding of functional organization of the 5' end of the DMD gene.
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