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BAG3-related myofibrillar myopathy in a Chinese family
- Source :
- Clinical Genetics. 81:394-398
- Publication Year :
- 2011
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2011.
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Abstract
- In contrast to the usual slow disease progression in myofibrillar myopathies, patients with Bag3opathy often have a rapidly progressive and more severe phenotype with a worse prognosis. We describe a Chinese patient, born to non-consanguineous parents, who first presented at age 6 with clumsy walking and difficult climbing staircase. With a history of restrictive lung disease previously diagnosed as asthma, she progressed rapidly with proximal myopathy, rigid spine and bilateral tightening of the Achilles tendons requiring surgical elongation. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with restrictive physiology was shown by echocardiogram. Moreover, prolonged QT interval was also noted in the patient. Family history was unremarkable yet her father was incidentally found to have prolonged QT interval. Mutation analysis with genomic DNA of the proband showed heterozygous de novo known mutation c.626C>T (p.Pro209Leu) and a germline variation c.772C>T (p.Arg258Trp) in BAG3. Her father was found to be a carrier of c.772C>T. Muscle biopsy findings were suggestive of myofibrillar myopathy on light microscopy and ultrastructural studies. To our knowledge, this is the first Chinese case of Bag3opathy so far reported.
- Subjects :
- Proband
medicine.medical_specialty
Molecular Sequence Data
QT interval
Germline
Asian People
Muscular Diseases
Myofibrils
Internal medicine
Genetics
medicine
Humans
Restrictive lung disease
Amino Acid Sequence
Family history
Child
Genetics (clinical)
Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing
Asthma
Muscle biopsy
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
medicine.disease
Mutation
Cardiology
Female
Apoptosis Regulatory Proteins
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00099163
- Volume :
- 81
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Clinical Genetics
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....a8f6301dd58893b40a3cfac18ce7efd9