Estimating prevalence for limb-girdle muscular dystrophy based on public sequencing databases
Liu W, Pajusalu S, Lake NJ, Zhou G, Ioannidis N, Mittal P, Johnson NE, Weihl CC, Williams BA, Albrecht DE, Rufibach LE, Lek M. Estimating prevalence for limb-girdle muscular dystrophy based on public sequencing databases. Genetics In Medicine 2019, 21: 2512-2520. PMID: 31105274, DOI: 10.1038/s41436-019-0544-8.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsBayes TheoremChromosome MappingDatabases, GeneticExomeFemaleHumansMaleMuscular Dystrophies, Limb-GirdleMutationPrevalenceConceptsMuscular dystrophyLimb-girdle muscular dystrophyClinical trialsGene-level mechanismsLower incidencePossible underdiagnosisGeneral populationEpidemiological studiesEpidemiology dataPrevalence estimatesGenetic subtypesMuscle diseaseLGMD subtypesDisease prevalencePrevalenceRecessive diseaseSubtypesPublic sequencing databasesDiseaseTrialsLGMDDystrophyHeterogeneous categorySequencing databases