Abstract
To the Editor: Yilmaz et al1 provide a compelling report focused on the cardiac involvement in a Duchenne carrier and her affected child. They showed a similar late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) pattern revealed by cardiac MRI, relating genotype to the degree of cardiomyopathy. We believe that some additional comment is needed about the interpretation of their results. Duplication of exons 8 to 11 of the dystrophin gene is a very rare rearrangement that requires in the carrier, for multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification, testing of all 79 exons of …
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