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. 2017 Oct 16;7(4):13. doi: 10.3390/jpm7040013

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Mechanism of exon skipping therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). Deletion of exon 45 results in a frameshift in the spliced mRNA. Treatment with AOs can correct the reading frame producing a truncated yet partly functional protein, as in the case of Becker muscular dystrophy (BMD).