DMD and Duchenne muscular dystrophy: Alternatively, they can be treated with pharmacological agents, such as aminoglycoside (Barton-Davis et al. 1999; Malik et al. 2010) or negamycin (Arakawa et al. 2003; Allamand et al. 2008), which target the nonsense mutation in the dystrophin gene of about 15% of DMD patients.