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TNNT1 nemaline myopathy: natural history and therapeutic frontier.
Human molecular genetics - 15 Sept 2018
Fox Michael D, Carson Vincent J, Feng Han-Zhong, Lawlor Michael W, Gray John T, Brigatti Karlla W, Jin J-P, Strauss Kevin A
Abstract excerpt
We describe the natural history of 'Amish' nemaline myopathy (ANM), an infantile-onset, lethal disease linked to a pathogenic c.505G>T nonsense mutation of TNNT1, which encodes the slow fiber isoform of troponin T (TNNT1; a.k.a. TnT). The TNNT1 c.505G>T allele has a carrier frequency of 6.5% within Old Order Amish settlements of North America. We collected natural history data for 106 ANM patients born between...
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