Abstract
The large majority of situations in which prenatal diagnosis is applied in the muscular dystrophies (MDs) is for Duchenne muscular dystrophies (DMD). Hence, discussion of fetal muscle biopsy in this chapter is limited to DMD, although, in principle, it should be applicable to any other primary protein deficiency that is expressed in fetal life (e.g., sarcoglycanopathies).
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Hoffman, E.P., Evans, M. (2001). Fetal Muscle Biopsy. In: Bushby, K.M., Anderson, L.V. (eds) Muscular Dystrophy. Methods in Molecular Medicine, vol 43. Springer, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1385/1-59259-138-8:387
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