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Dr. Mani S. Mahadevan was part of the team that first discovered the gene that causes myopic muscular dystrophy, and is now working on a treatment. 

Testing muscular dystrophy therapy

The University’s School of Medicine’s Medical Director of Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory, Dr. Mani S. Mahadevan, has now successfully tested a therapy in mice that reduces the deleterious effects of the disease.

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