NES and Duchenne muscular dystrophy: At least 21 of them were already known in the DMD field as proteins able to discriminate between DMD patients and heathy controls in other recent studies in patients' sera.15, 16, 18, 21, 25, 26, 38, 39 Less evidence was available for the other nine proteins, namely, NES, BASP1, C4A, MAP 4, C4BPA, CFH, KRT10, RELB, and PDZK1.