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Hi,
I did not see it but I looked it up and he has myostatin-related muscle hypertrophy.
Here is a link to an article I found on it :
http://www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/index.ssf/2009/06/liam_hoekstra_...
I had heard about another boy in Germany who also has this. Very interesting.
Thanks for the link to the article Eileen. Since this was filmed in February, I wonder if Dr. Hoffman has already analyzed Liam's DNA, and if there were any preliminary findings. On another, somewhat related subject, I remember awhile back reading about 3 brothers in Missouri who have DMD, but did not display any of the symptoms. At that time, I think all 3 were already teenagers. They were going to be "guinea pigs" for research also, but I never heard anything more about that. I'm going to see if I can follow up on that.
Eileen DeLong said:Hi,
I did not see it but I looked it up and he has myostatin-related muscle hypertrophy.
Here is a link to an article I found on it :
http://www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/index.ssf/2009/06/liam_hoekstra_...
I had heard about another boy in Germany who also has this. Very interesting.
I actually contacted that family with the 3 boys. They do have symptoms but were doing really well and yes they were being looked at closely to see what was different with them.
Terry Porcaro said:Thanks for the link to the article Eileen. Since this was filmed in February, I wonder if Dr. Hoffman has already analyzed Liam's DNA, and if there were any preliminary findings. On another, somewhat related subject, I remember awhile back reading about 3 brothers in Missouri who have DMD, but did not display any of the symptoms. At that time, I think all 3 were already teenagers. They were going to be "guinea pigs" for research also, but I never heard anything more about that. I'm going to see if I can follow up on that.
Eileen DeLong said:Hi,
I did not see it but I looked it up and he has myostatin-related muscle hypertrophy.
Here is a link to an article I found on it :
http://www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/index.ssf/2009/06/liam_hoekstra_...
I had heard about another boy in Germany who also has this. Very interesting.
I was at PPMD Conference in Atlanta & PTC Therapeutics has a Myostatin drug in the pipeline. I think that is similar to the Liam strongest Toddler issue. They discussed Myostatin Inhibitors. This is our SONS time... I can feel it. The conference really got us excited about the future.
Keith,
Read this link for info on myostatin inhibition drug (ACE-0 31) with possible application to DMD. This is the one that they spoke of at the conference. Not a gene therapy, rather a recombinant protein/decoy receptor.
Best,
Carrie
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