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Myopathy-causing actin mutations promote defects in serum-response factor signalling

A paper by Professor Laura Machesky and colleagues (CRUK Beatson Institute for Cancer Research, Glasgow) has shed light on how genetic damage to muscle proteins can lead to the development of the rare muscle wasting disease, nemaline myopathy. A press release on this paper is available here.