Does gentamicin have any potential for treating Becker muscular dystrophy?
A The researchers say that, to their knowledge, people with Becker muscular dystrophy who have undergone genetic testing so far have been found to have a deletion in the dystrophin gene. However, it’s possible that there are people with BMD who have a premature stop codon that occurs “late” in the dystrophin gene and, therefore, leads to production of a small but partially functional dystrophin protein.
