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A novel homozygous missense mutation in the GNE gene of a patient with quadriceps-sparing hereditary inclusion body myopathy associated with muscle inflammation.
Neuromuscular disorders : NMD - 1 Dec 2003
Krause Sabine, Schlotter-Weigel Beate, Walter Maggie C, Najmabadi Hossein, Wiendl Heinz, Müller-Höcker Josef, Müller-Felber Wolfgang, Pongratz Dieter, Lochmüller Hanns
Abstract excerpt
An adult-onset hereditary inclusion body myopathy with sparing of the quadriceps muscle was originally described in Iranian Jews and assigned to a locus on chromosome 9p12-p13. Recently, mutations of the UDP-N-acetylglucosamine-2-epimerase/N-acetylmannosamine kinase (GNE) gene were reported to cause hereditary inclusion body myopathy and one type of distal myopathy in a world-wide distribution. Importantly, the...
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