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Human genes for Becker muscular dystrophy

Becker muscular dystrophy [DOID:9883]

A muscular dystrophy that involves slowly worsening muscle weakness of the legs and pelvis, and has_material_basis in X-linked recessive inheritance of mutation in the dystrophin gene on chromosome Xp21.

Synonyms:  Becker muscular dystrophy,  Becker muscular dystrophies,  DOID:9883,  benign congenital myopathy,  Benign pseudohypertrophic muscular dystrophy ...

Linkouts:  OMIM

The disease-gene associations are derived from automatic text mining of the biomedical literature, manually curated database annotations, cancer mutation data, and genome-wide association studies. The confidence of each association is signified by stars, where ★★★★★ is the highest confidence and ★☆☆☆☆ is the lowest.

Developed by Sune Frankild, Alexander Junge, Albert Pallejà, Dhouha Grissa, Kalliopi Tsafou, and Lars Juhl Jensen from the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research.