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A novel frameshift ACTN2 variant causes a rare adult-onset distal myopathy with multi-minicores.
CNS neuroscience & therapeutics - 1 Oct 2021
Chen Lei, Chen Dian-Fu, Dong Hai-Lin, Liu Gong-Lu, Wu Zhi-Ying
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INTRODUCTION: Distal myopathies are a group of rare muscle disorders characterized by selective or predominant weakness in the feet and/or hands. In 2019, ACTN2 gene was firstly identified to be a cause of a new adult-onset distal muscular dystrophy calling actininopathy and another distinctly different myopathy, named multiple structured core disease (MsCD). Thus, the various phenotypes and limited mutations in...
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