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New disease allele and de novo mutation indicate mutational vulnerability of titin exon 343 in hereditary myopathy with early respiratory failure.
Neuromuscular disorders : NMD - 1 Feb 2015
Yue Dongyue, Gao Mingshi, Zhu Wenhua, Luo Sushan, Xi Jianying, Wang Bei, Li Ying, Cai Shuang, Li Jin, Wang Yin, Lu Jiahong, Zhao Chongbo
Abstract excerpt
We report two patients of Chinese ancestry with hereditary myopathy with early respiratory failure, one sporadic with atypical onset as rigid spine syndrome, the other familial with 10 years' history of hyperCKemia. Muscle biopsy was either nonspecific or typical with cytoplasmic bodies and rimmed vacuoles. Despite the phenotypic variety, both patients showed fatty infiltration of semitendinosus on muscle...
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