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Previous Volume 330:368-370 February 3, 1994 Number 5 Next

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To the Editor: The family with Becker's cardiomyopathy described by Muntoni et al. (Sept. 23 issue)¹ and the two families described previously by Towbin et al.² strongly support the argument that 5' mutations in the dystrophin gene may cause a selective cardiomyopathy. My colleagues and I have studied a fourth family also affected by severe cardiomyopathy and mild Becker's muscular dystrophy with a 5' gene mutation that differs from that described in other reports (unpublished data).

The hypothesis that a selective deletion of the muscle promoter causes cardiomyopathy without skeletal myopathy is not supported by other published reports of subjects . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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