By Dave D’Alessandro/Star-Ledger Columnist Published: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 The first time he was aware that something was wrong was when he was in his late teens, and being someone who doesn’t complain about anything — that should be on his business card, by the way — Chris Carrino decided to keep it to himself.
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 disease, Carrino, 40, has launched The Chris Carrino Foundation …
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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 …
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By: Tom Valeo Published: September 16, 2010 – Volume 10 – Issue 18 – p 15 Nearly 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.