Myopathy with skeletal asymmetry and hemidiaphragm elevation is caused by myotubularin mutations

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Grogan, PM
Tanner, SM
Orstavik, KH
Knudsen, GPS
Saperstein, DS
Vogel, H
Barohn, RJ
Herbelin, LL
McVey, AL
Katz, JS
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[1] Stanford Univ, Med Ctr, Dept Neurol, Palo Alto, CA 94304 USA
[2] Stanford Univ, Med Ctr, Dept Neuropathol, Palo Alto, CA 94304 USA
[3] Palo Alto Vet Affairs Hlth Care Syst, Palo Alto, CA USA
[4] Ohio State Univ, Human Canc Genet Progam, Columbus, OH 43210 USA
[5] Natl Hosp, Dept Med Genet, Oslo, Norway
[6] Univ Oslo, Rikshosp, Fac Div, N-0027 Oslo, Norway
[7] Univ Kansas, Med Ctr, Dept Neurol, Kansas City, KS 66103 USA
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10.1212/01.WNL.0000160393.99621.D0
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R74 [神经病学与精神病学];
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The authors report two families with a myopathy phenotype affecting only women, marked by asymmetric weakness, skeletal asymmetry, and an elevated hemidiaphragm. One family had a mutation in a stop codon in exon 9 of the myotubularin gene, and the other had a splice site mutation in exon 13. Both families had manifesting and nonmanifesting carriers. Skewed X-inactivation appeared to explain the clinical manifestations in only one of the two families.
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