Dr. Jeffrey Towbin and colleagues first identified the disease-causing gene as dystrophin. Dystrophin is a cytoskeletal protein that provides structural support to the muscle cell, as well as linking ...

Dystrophin and β-dystroglycan are components of the dystrophin–glycoprotein complex (DGC), a multimolecular assembly that spans the cell membrane and links the actin cytoskeleton to the ...