6th Dysferlin Conference, 3-6 April 2013, Arlington, Virginia, USA.
The 2013 Dysferlin Conference, sponsored and organized by the Jain Foundation, was held from April 3-6, 2013 in Arlington, VA. Participants included 34 researcher speakers, 5 dysferlinopathy patients and all 8 members of the Jain Foundation team. Dysferlinopathy is a rare disease that typically robs patients of mobility during their second or third decade of life. The goals of these Dysferlin Conferences are to bring experts in the field together so that they will collaborate with one another, to quicken the pace of understanding the biology of the disease and to build effective platforms to ameliorate disease. This is important because the function of dysferlin and how to compensate for its absence is still not well understood, in spite of the fact that the dysferlin gene was identified more than a decade ago. The objective of this conference, therefore, was to share and discuss the newest unpublished research defining the role of dysferlin in skeletal muscle, why its absence causes muscular dystrophy and possible therapies for dysferlin-deficient muscular dystrophy patients.
Jain Foundation Inc., 9725 Third Ave NE, Suite 204, Seattle, WA, USA.
Douglas E
DE
Albrecht
Jain Foundation Inc., 9725 Third Ave NE, Suite 204, Seattle, WA, USA.
Laura E
LE
Rufibach
Jain Foundation Inc., 9725 Third Ave NE, Suite 204, Seattle, WA, USA.
Bradley A
BA
Williams
Jain Foundation Inc., 9725 Third Ave NE, Suite 204, Seattle, WA, USA.
Elaine R
ER
Lee
Jain Foundation Inc., 9725 Third Ave NE, Suite 204, Seattle, WA, USA.
Hillarie P
HP
Windish
Jain Foundation Inc., 9725 Third Ave NE, Suite 204, Seattle, WA, USA.
Esther Y
EY
Hwang
Jain Foundation Inc., 9725 Third Ave NE, Suite 204, Seattle, WA, USA.
Sarah R
SR
Shira
Jain Foundation Inc., 9725 Third Ave NE, Suite 204, Seattle, WA, USA. Electronic address: plavimittal@jain-foundation.org.
Plavi
P
Mittal
D000073939:Dysferlin; D006801:Humans; D008565:Membrane Proteins / Q000502:physiology*; D009124:Muscle Proteins / Q000502:physiology*; D049288:Muscular Dystrophies, Limb-Girdle
C114839:DYSF protein, human; D000073939:Dysferlin; D008565:Membrane Proteins; D009124:Muscle Proteins
Dysferlin; LGMD; Limb girdle muscular dystrophy; Muscular dystrophy