STIM1 and Duchenne muscular dystrophy: For instance, a micro-array analysis of human skeletal-muscle biopsies from control patients and Duchenne muscular dystrophy patients (obtained from the Gene Expression Omnibus; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/) indicated that the STIM1-mRNA levels were not increased, but rather tended to decrease in the muscle of the dystrophic patients, while Orai1-mRNA levels were not significantly changed (Figure 5).