Rhonda Bassel-Duby, Ph.D. (IMAGE)

UT Southwestern Medical Center

Rhonda Bassel-Duby, Ph.D.

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A UT Southwestern research team has catalogued gene activity in the skeletal muscle of mice, comparing healthy animals to those carrying a genetic mutation that causes Duchene muscular dystrophy (DMD) in humans. The findings, published online recently in PNAS, could lead to new treatments for this devastating degenerative disease and insights into factors that affect muscle development.

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