From: Prenatal diagnosis of 1408 foetuses at risk of DMD/BMD by MLPA and Sanger sequencing combined with STR linkage analysis
DMD gene variant type
Mother were carrier
Mother were
noncarrier
de novo
variant rate
(%)
Exon deletions
535
394
42.1%
Exon duplications
94
15
13.8%
Small variants
234
44
15.8%
Total
863
453
34.4%