Developmental defects in a zebrafish model for muscular dystrophies

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In this paper, the authors have found that downregulating FKRP in zebrafish results in embryos that develop a range of abnormalities reminiscent of the developmental defects observed in human muscular dystrophies associated with mutations in FKRP.

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