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Further Reading
Frischmeyer PA and Dietz HC (1999) Nonsense‐mediated mRNA decay in health and disease. Human Molecular Genetics 8: 1893–1900.
Kuzmiak HA and Maquat LE (2006) Applying nonsense‐mediated mRNA decay research to the clinic: progress and challenges. Trends in Molecular Medicine 12: 306–316.
Maquat LE and Carmichael GG (2001) Quality control of mRNA function. Cell 104: 173–176.
Mitrpant C, Fletcher S and Wilton SD (2009) Personalised genetic intervention for Duchenne muscular dystrophy: antisense oligomers and exon skipping. Current Molecular Pharmacology 2: 110–121.
Muir LA and Chamberlain JS (2009) Emerging strategies for cell and gene therapy of the muscular dystrophies. Expert Reviews in Molecular Medicine 11: e18. DOI: 10.1017/S1462399409001100.
Zingman LV, Park S, Olson TM, Alekseev AE and Terzic A (2007) Aminoglycoside‐induced translational read‐through in disease: overcoming nonsense mutations by pharmacogenetic therapy. Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics 81: 99–103.
Web Links
British Muscular Dystrophy Campaign website. http://www.muscular‐dystrophy.org/
Human Gene Mutation Database (HGMD). http://www.hgmd.org
Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man. A catalog of human genes and genetic disorders. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Omim/
The Journal of Gene Medicine Clinical Trial site. http://www.wiley.co.uk/genmed/clinical