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Homozygosity for a nonsense mutation in the alpha-tropomyosin slow gene TPM3 in a patient with severe infantile nemaline myopathy.
Neuromuscular disorders : NMD - 1 Dec 1999
Tan P, Briner J, Boltshauser E, Davis M R, Wilton S D, North K, Wallgren-Pettersson C, Laing N G
Abstract excerpt
The nemaline myopathies are muscle disorders of variable severity and age of onset, with characteristic nemaline bodies in the sarcoplasm. Genes for dominant (NEM1) and recessive (NEM2A) nemaline myopathy have been localised to chromosomes one and two, respectively. A missense mutation in the alpha-tropomyosin gene (TPM3) has been associated with NEM1 in one family. Probands from 76 other nemaline myopathy...
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