Indeed, early high-resolution NMR analysis of DMD patient serum and human LGMD2B muscles showed a significant increase in total cholesterol, free cholesterol, cholesterol esters, triglycerides and certain phospholipids compared to unaffected age- and gender-matched controls (Srivastava et al., 2010, 2017), although the lipoprotein data in the current study was obtained with routine clinical tools. Here, DYSF is linked to Duchenne muscular dystrophy.