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Telethoninopathy is one of the rarest forms of Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy (LGMD). So far, only a small number of LGMD type 2 G (LGMD2G) patients have been described, mostly patients from Brazil. Here we present a 35-year-old female patient of Turkish ethnicity with LGMD2G due to a novel homozygous frame-shift mutation c.90_91del (p.Ser31Hisfs*11) in the telethonin gene, probably leading to truncated...
The patient reported here presented with first symptoms at the age of 10 showing an abnormal gait, calf hypertrophy and winged scapulae. She was diagnosed with eosinophilic myositis after muscle biopsy. A second muscle biopsy at the age of 20 and subsequent genetic testing, however, revealed the underlying condition of a primary γ-sarcoglycanopathy, or LGMD2C. To our knowledge, this is the first LGMD2C...
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