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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 pseudohypertrophic muscular dystrophy,  benign congenital myopathy ...

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.

Currently maintained by Qingyao Huang at Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Zurich. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.