Böcker av Alan E. H. (Emeritus Professor of Human Genetics Emery

Fully revised and updated the new edition of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy discusses the recent advances in the field of molecular biology for prenatal diagnosis and genetic counselling to the recent pioneering work with anti-sense oligonucleotides, and the possibility of effective RNA therapy.

This illustrated and comprehensive historical account deals successively with the early history of muscular dystrophy, refinements of its clinical picture, heterogeneity and the classification and description of the disease, the biochemistry, pathogenesis and the molecular genetics of the disorder and, finally, gene therapy.