Article
Molecular diagnosis of Alpha-sarcoglycanopathies by NGS in seven Moroccan families and report of two novel variants.
Irish journal of medical science - 1 Dec 2024
Rahmuni Yasmina, Kadiri Youssef El, Lyahyai Jaber, Sefiani Abdelaziz, Ratbi Ilham
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Limb-girdle muscular dystrophies constitute a heterogeneous group of neuromuscular diseases, both clinically and genetically. Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy by alpha-sarcoglycan deficiency or LGMD R3 α-sarcoglycan-related is a subtype of the autosomal recessive sarcoglycanopathies caused by variants in the alpha-sarcoglycan gene (SGCA) at 17q21.33. It appears in childhood by progressive weakness of...
Topics
- Humans
- Sarcoglycanopathies
- Male
- Female
- Morocco
- Sarcoglycans
- Child
- High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing
- Adult
- Adolescent
- Muscular Dystrophies, Limb-Girdle
