The Board of Directors of the Chris Carrino Foundation for FSHD has proudly approved the funding of $107,777 to Peter Jones, PhD and Takako Jones, PhD at the University of Massachusetts for their mouse model research project. It is an expansion of research funded by...
September 19, 2011 Massapequa Park, New York The Chris Carrino Foundation for FSHD announced the extension of a scientific research project directed towards understanding the genetic basis of variable severity in FSHD (Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy). The study, entitled, "Uncovering the Genetic Basis of Variable Severity in FSHD"...
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.
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