Recent work suggests that the molecular basis for one form of limb-girdle muscular dystrophy is neither a single gene nor many genes: Enter the digenic model.
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Ommen, GJ. A foundation for limb-girdle muscular dystrophy. Nat Med 1, 412–414 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1038/nm0595-412
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