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Apr
Press Release: "Voice of the NETS" Chris Carrino Reveals Struggle with FSHD
April 8, 2011 EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Chris Carrino, the radio voice of Nets Basketball for the last decade, has revealed publicly for the first time that he suffers from Facioscapulohumeral Dystrophy (FSHD), a form of muscular dystrophy. In an effort to raise money for this underfunded...
22
Mar
NYT Article: "Reanimated ‘Junk’ DNA Is Found to Cause Disease"
By GINA KOLATA Published: August 19, 2010
The human genome is riddled with dead genes, fossils of a sort, dating back hundreds of thousands of years the genome's equivalent of an attic full of broken and useless junk.
Some of those genes, surprised geneticists reported Thursday, can rise from the dead like zombies, waking up to cause one of the most common forms of muscular dystrophy. This is the first time, geneticists say, that they have seen a dead gene come back to life and cause a disease.
21
Mar
Neurology Today Article: New Report Identifies Pathogen for Fascioscapulohumeral Dystrophy
By: Tom Valeo Published: September 16, 2010 - Volume 10 - Issue 18 - p 15Nearly 20 years after the discovery of the mutation, scientists have finally determined how it contributes to a common form of muscular dystrophy known as facioscapulohumeral dystrophy, or FSHD, which occurs in about 1 in 20,000 births.