Edited by
Nigel G. Laing

2008

This book arose from a request by Ron Landes of Landes Bioscience for a book on the role of the sarcomere in human skeletal muscle diseases following our article “When contractile proteins go bad: The sarcomere and skeletal muscle disease” in BioEssays in 2005 (Vol 27, pages 809-822). The sarcomere is also the basis of heart diseases, but the remit of this book is skeletal muscle diseases alone.