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Zaspopathy in a large classic late-onset distal myopathy family.
Brain : a journal of neurology - 1 Jun 2007
Griggs R, Vihola A, Hackman P, Talvinen K, Haravuori H, Faulkner G, Eymard B, Richard I, Selcen D, Engel A, Carpen O, Udd B
Abstract excerpt
Distal myopathies have been associated with mutations in titin, dysferlin, GNE, desmin and myosin. Of these, only titin mutations were previously known to cause dominant late-onset distal myopathy. Recent findings, however, have indicated that patients affected with myofibrillar myopathy have a more distal than proximal muscle phenotype and a proportion of these may have mutations in myotilin, ZASP or filamin C,...
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