Listing of Publications and Abstracts

The following is a list of publications resulting for the work of the Boston Biomedical Research Institute Senator Paul D. Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Cooperative Research Center for FSHD:

Transcriptional regulation differs in affected facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy patients compared to asymptomatic related carriers.
Arashiro, P., Eisenberg, I., Kho, A. T., Cerqueira, A. M., Canovas, M., Silva, H. C., Pavanello, R. C., Verjovski-Almeida, S., Kunkel, L. M. & Zatz, M.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2009 Apr 14;106(15):6220-5. Epub 2009 Apr 1.
PMCID: PMC2664154 [PubMed]

Ku70 regulates Bax-mediated pathogenesis in laminin-alpha2-deficient human muscle cells and mouse models of congenital muscular dystrophy.
Vishnudas, V. K., Miller, J. B.
Hum Mol Genet. 2009 Dec 1;18(23):4467-77. Epub 2009 Aug 19.
PMCID: PMC2773263 [PubMed]

Establishment of clonal myogenic cell lines from severely affected dystrophic muscles - CDK4 maintains the myogenic population.
Stadler, G., Chen, J. C., Wagner, K., Robin, J. D., Shay, J. W., Emerson, C. P. E. Jr,Wright, WE.
Skeletal Muscle. 2011 Mar 8;1(1):12.
PMCID: PMC3156635 [PubMed]

Gene expression profiling of skeletal muscles treated with a soluble activin type IIB receptor.
Rahimov F, King OD, Warsing LC, Powell RE, Emerson CP Jr, Kunkel LM, Wagner KR.
Physiol Genomics. 2011 Apr 27;43(8):398-407. Epub 2011 Jan 25.
PMCID: PMC3092338 [PubMed]

Peripheral nerve pathology, including aberrant Schwann cell differentiation, is ameliorated by doxycycline in a laminin-{alpha}2-deficient mouse model of congenital muscular dystrophy.
Homma S, Beermann ML, Miller JB.
Hum Mol Genet. 2011 Jul 1;20(13):2662-72. Epub 2011 Apr 19.
PMCID: PMC3110004 [PubMed]

A unique library of myogenic cells from facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy subjects and unaffected relatives: Family, disease, & cell function. 

Homma, S., Chen, J.C.J., Rahimov, F., Beermann, M.L., Hanger, K., Bibat, G.M., Wagner, K.R., Kunkel, L.M., Emerson Jr., C.P., and Miller, J.B.

Eur. J. Hum. Genet.  Advance online publication, 23 November 2011; doi:10.1038/ejhg.2011.213

PMID: 22108603 [PubMed]