Identification of an intragenic deletion in the SGCB gene through a re-evaluation of negative next generation sequencing results

•504 myopathic patients have been screened by an NGS approach.•A patient with a strong suspicion of sarcoglycanopathy, due to WB and immunohistochemical studies, was investigated.•The absence of reads on the sixth exon of the β-sarcoglycan gene was identified by a careful re-evaluation of the NGS da...

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Main Authors: Giugliano, Teresa, Fanin, Marina, Savarese, Marco, Piluso, Giulio, Angelini, Corrado, Nigro, Vincenzo
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Pergamon Press 2016
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4879147/