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Clinical, pathological, and molecular genetic analysis of 7 Chinese patients with hereditary myopathy with early respiratory failure.
Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology - 1 May 2022
Lv Xiaoqing, Zhao Bing, Xu Ling, Jiang Wei, Dai Tingjun, Zhao Dandan, Lin Pengfei, Yan Chuanzhu
Abstract excerpt
Hereditary myopathy with early respiratory failure (HMERF) is a subtype of myofibrillar myopathy. Mutations located on exon 344 of the titin-A band, the 119th fibronectin-3 domain (FN3 119), are responsible for HMERF. In this article, we retrospectively analyzed the clinical features, findings of muscle imaging, muscle pathology, immunohistochemistry, and ultrastructural characteristics of seven patients...
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