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Early stages of building a rare disease registry, methods and 2010 data from the Belgian Neuromuscular Disease Registry (BNMDR) [PDF]
The Belgian Neuromuscular Disease Registry, commissioned in 2008, aims to collect data to improve knowledge on neuromuscular diseases and enhance quality health services for neuromuscular disease patients.
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The RYR1 gene, which encodes the sarcoplasmic reticulum calcium release channel or type 1 ryanodine receptor (RyR1) of skeletal muscle, was sequenced in 1988 and RYR1 variations that impair calcium homeostasis and increase susceptibility to malignant ...
Tokunbor A. Lawal +7 more
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Background Idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM) are a disease complex that encompasses several distinctly acquired muscle illnesses. Anti-synthetase syndrome is a subset of IIM that is characterized by the presence of antibodies against aminoacyl ...
Zahraa Nour Eldine Ismail +1 more
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IntroductionRimmed vacuolar myopathies (RVMs) are a group of genetically heterogeneous diseases that share histopathological characteristics on muscle biopsy, including the aberrant accumulation of autophagic vacuoles. However, the presence of non-coding
Xiao-jing Wei +7 more
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Kelch proteins: emerging roles in skeletal muscle development and diseases [PDF]
Our understanding of genes that cause skeletal muscle disease has increased tremendously over the past three decades. Advances in approaches to genetics and genomics have aided in the identification of new pathogenic mechanisms in rare genetic disorders ...
Beggs, Alan H, Gupta, Vandana A
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Laing Early-onset Distal Myopathy Due to the MYH7 Mutation in an Iranian Family
Introduction: Laing early-onset distal myopathy is a disorder with autosomal dominant inheritance pattern caused by a mutation in the MYH7 gene that encodes the human β-myosin heavy chain.
Shabnam Ghazanfari-Sarabi +2 more
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Variants in ACTC1 underlie distal arthrogryposis accompanied by congenital heart defects
Summary: Contraction of the human sarcomere is the result of interactions between myosin cross-bridges and actin filaments. Pathogenic variants in genes such as MYH7, TPM1, and TNNI3 that encode parts of the cardiac sarcomere cause muscle diseases that ...
Jessica X. Chong +17 more
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A practical approach to the patient presenting with dropped head [PDF]
Head drop, or having a dropped head, is an uncommon condition in which patients present with a disabling inability to lift their head. It may arise in many neurological conditions that can be divided into those with neuromuscular weakness of neck ...
Demicoli, Marija, Marsh, Eleanor A.
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A 73‐Year‐Old Man With Several Years of Difficulty Climbing Stairs and Frequent Tripping
ABSTRACT A 73‐year‐old man presented with progressive weakness and atrophy predominantly affecting the distal finger flexors and quadriceps muscles. Electrophysiological studies demonstrated mixed myogenic and neurogenic features. Muscle MRI showed inflammatory changes, and muscle biopsy revealed granulomatous myositis with histologic features ...
Mehmet Can Sari +3 more
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Expanding the Clinico-Genetic Scope of Bethlem Myopathy: A Family of Five Patients from Kerala
Bethlem myopathy (BM) represents the milder phenotype of collagen type VI-related myopathies. We report a young male with a striking family history who presented with progressive proximal myopathy, distal joint contractures, and a unique presentation of ...
Jayaram Saibaba +4 more
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