@article{3087576,
    title = "The TREAT-NMD DMD global database: Analysis of more than 7,000 duchenne muscular dystrophy mutations",
    author = "Bladen, C.L. and Salgado, D. and Monges, S. and Foncuberta, M.E. and Kekou, K. and Kosma, K. and Dawkins, H. and Lamont, L. and Roy, A.J. and Chamova, T. and Guergueltcheva, V. and Chan, S. and Korngut, L. and Campbell, C. and Dai, Y. and Wang, J. and Barišić, N. and Brabec, P. and Lahdetie, J. and Walter, M.C. and Schreiber-Katz, O. and Karcagi, V. and Garami, M. and Viswanathan, V. and Bayat, F. and Buccella, F. and Kimura, E. and Koeks, Z. and van den Bergen, J.C. and Rodrigues, M. and Roxburgh, R. and Lusakowska, A. and Kostera-Pruszczyk, A. and Zimowski, J. and Santos, R. and Neagu, E. and Artemieva, S. and Rasic, V.M. and Vojinovic, D. and Posada, M. and Bloetzer, C. and Jeannet, P.-Y. and Joncourt, F. and Díaz-Manera, J. and Gallardo, E. and Karaduman, A.A. and Topaloğlu, H. and El Sherif, R. and Stringer, A. and Shatillo, A.V. and Martin, A.S. and Peay, H.L. and Bellgard, M.I. and Kirschner, J. and Flanigan, K.M. and Straub, V. and Bushby, K. and Verschuuren, J. and Aartsma-Rus, A. and Béroud, C. and Lochmüller, H.",
    journal = "Human Mutation",
    year = "2015",
    volume = "36",
    number = "4",
    pages = "395-402",
    publisher = "John Wiley and Sons Inc",
    issn = "1059-7794, 1098-1004",
    doi = "10.1002/humu.22758",
    keywords = "Article;  Duchenne muscular dystrophy;  exon;  exon skipping;  gene deletion;  gene duplication;  gene insertion;  gene mutation;  gene therapy;  genetic analysis;  genetic database;  human;  intron;  missense mutation;  nonsense mutation;  point mutation;  priority journal;  RNA splicing;  stop codon;  Duchenne muscular dystrophy;  genetics;  mutation;  register, dystrophin, Databases, Genetic;  Dystrophin;  Humans;  Muscular Dystrophy, Duchenne;  Mutation;  Registries",
    abstract = "Analyzing the type and frequency of patient-specific mutations that give rise to Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is an invaluable tool for diagnostics, basic scientific research, trial planning, and improved clinical care. Locus-specific databases allow for the collection, organization, storage, and analysis of genetic variants of disease. Here, we describe the development and analysis of the TREAT-NMD DMD Global database (http://umd.be/TREAT_DMD/). We analyzed genetic data for 7,149 DMD mutations held within the database. A total of 5,682 large mutations were observed (80% of total mutations), of which 4,894 (86%) were deletions (1 exon or larger) and 784 (14%) were duplications (1 exon or larger). There were 1,445 small mutations (smaller than 1 exon, 20% of all mutations), of which 358 (25%) were small deletions and 132 (9%) small insertions and 199 (14%) affected the splice sites. Point mutations totalled 756 (52% of small mutations) with 726 (50%) nonsense mutations and 30 (2%) missense mutations. Finally, 22 (0.3%) mid-intronic mutations were observed. In addition, mutations were identified within the database that would potentially benefit from novel genetic therapies for DMD including stop codon read-through therapies (10% of total mutations) and exon skipping therapy (80% of deletions and 55% of total mutations). © 2015 The Authors."
}