Susan Brown/Jack Lucy: Dystrophin. Gene, protein, and cell biology.
Cambridge UP 1997. 0-521-55033-5. $90.

13754 Stephen Tapscott: Deconstructing myotonic dystrophy.
Science 8 September 2000, 1701-1702.

5589 Jeremy Webb: Mini-gene injection prevents muscle-wasting disease.
New Scientist 28 August 1993, 8-9. Gene therapy has cured mice of a
muscle-wasting disorder similar to Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a fatal
disease that kills boys in their teens or early twenties. It is one of the
most common and severe disorders to be cused by a single defective gene, it
is inherited on the X chromosome, and the responsible gene is the biggest
known human gene (with 2 MBP). Sufferers fail to make dystrophin, a protein
essential for maintaining the structure and strength of muscle cells.