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Intranuclear rods myopathy with autonomic dysfunction.
Brain & development - 1 Aug 2013
Chou Po-Ching, Liang Wen-Chen, Nonaka Ikuya, Mitsuhashi Satomi, Nishino Ichizo, Jong Yuh-Jyh
Abstract excerpt
Intranuclear rods myopathy (IRM), a variant of nemaline myopathy (NM), is characterized by rod structure in the myonuclei. Patients with IRM present with similar symptoms to those of severe infantile-type NM but have worse outcome. Several extramuscular manifestations have been reported in NM but no dysautonomia. We herein report a 2-year-old girl with IRM and a heterozygous mutation, c.430C>T (p.L144F) in ACTA1....
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