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A mutation in the dimerization domain of filamin c causes a novel type of autosomal dominant myofibrillar myopathy.
American journal of human genetics - 1 Aug 2005
Vorgerd Matthias, van der Ven Peter F M, Bruchertseifer Vera, Löwe Thomas, Kley Rudolf A, Schröder Rolf, Lochmüller Hanns, Himmel Mirko, Koehler Katrin, Fürst Dieter O, Huebner Angela
Abstract excerpt
Myofibrillar myopathy (MFM) is a human disease that is characterized by focal myofibrillar destruction and pathological cytoplasmic protein aggregations. In an extended German pedigree with a novel form of MFM characterized by clinical features of a limb-girdle myopathy and morphological features of MFM, we identified a co-segregating, heterozygous nonsense mutation (8130G-->A; W2710X) in the filamin c gene...
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