Development of exon skipping therapies for Duchenne muscular dystrophy: a critical review and a perspective on the outstanding issues

A Aartsma-Rus, V Straub, R Hemmings… - Nucleic acid …, 2017 - liebertpub.com
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a rare, severe, progressive muscle-wasting disease
leading to disability and premature death. Patients lack the muscle membrane-stabilizing …

[HTML][HTML] Alternative splicing: the pledge, the turn, and the prestige: the key role of alternative splicing in human biological systems

LM Gallego-Paez, MC Bordone, AC Leote… - Human genetics, 2017 - Springer
Alternative pre-mRNA splicing is a tightly controlled process conducted by the spliceosome,
with the assistance of several regulators, resulting in the expression of different transcript …

Exon-skipping advances for Duchenne muscular dystrophy

L Echevarría, P Aupy… - Human molecular genetics, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a fatal genetic disorder characterized by
progressive muscle wasting that has currently no cure. Exon-skipping strategy represents …

Developing DMD therapeutics: a review of the effectiveness of small molecules, stop-codon readthrough, dystrophin gene replacement, and exon-skipping therapies

O Sheikh, T Yokota - Expert opinion on investigational drugs, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is an X-linked recessive disorder caused
by mutations in the dystrophin (DMD) gene. Most patients die from respiratory failure or …

Intragenic and structural variation in the SMN locus and clinical variability in spinal muscular atrophy

RI Wadman, MD Jansen, M Stam… - Brain …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Clinical severity and treatment response vary significantly between patients with spinal
muscular atrophy. The approval of therapies and the emergence of neonatal screening …

[HTML][HTML] Antisense Oligonucleotides Used to Target the DUX4 mRNA as Therapeutic Approaches in FaciosScapuloHumeral Muscular Dystrophy (FSHD)

E Ansseau, C Vanderplanck, A Wauters, SQ Harper… - Genes, 2017 - mdpi.com
FacioScapuloHumeral muscular Dystrophy (FSHD) is one of the most prevalent hereditary
myopathies and is generally characterized by progressive muscle atrophy affecting the face …

Significance of alternative splicing in cancer cells

F Qi, Y Li, X Yang, YP Wu, LJ Lin, XM Liu - Chinese medical journal, 2020 - mednexus.org
Objective: Alternative splicing can generate various structural and functional protein
isoforms. Recently, accumulating evidence shows a relationship between alternative …

The contribution of alternative splicing to genetic risk for psychiatric disorders

E Reble, A Dineen, CL Barr - Genes, Brain and Behavior, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
A genetic contribution to psychiatric disorders has clearly been established and genome‐
wide association studies now provide the location of risk genes and genetic variants …

[HTML][HTML] Systematic evaluation of 2′-Fluoro modified chimeric antisense oligonucleotide-mediated exon skipping in vitro

S Chen, BT Le, M Chakravarthy, TR Kosbar… - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
Antisense oligonucleotide (AO)-mediated splice modulation has been established as a
therapeutic approach for tackling genetic diseases. Recently, Exondys51, a drug that aims to …

[HTML][HTML] Comprehensive genetic characteristics of dystrophinopathies in China

P Ma, S Zhang, H Zhang, S Fang, Y Dong… - Orphanet Journal of …, 2018 - Springer
Background Dystrophinopathies are a set of severe and incurable X-linked neuromuscular
disorders caused by mutations in the dystrophin gene (DMD). These mutations form a …