New muscular disease: Myoglobinopathy

(IDIBELL-Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute) Institute (IDIBELL) led by Dr. Montse Oliv é have described in Nature Communications a new muscular disease caused by a mutation in the myoglobin gene. The study has been possible thanks to a collaboration with a group of geneticists from the University of Western Australia (UWA), led by Prof. Nigel Laing, and researchers from the Karolinska Institute (Stockholm, Sweden).
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