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MUSCLE & NERVE
Volume 51, Issue 5, Pages 767-771Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/mus.24528
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Amish nemaline myopathy (ANM); congenital myopathy; nemaline myopathy; TNNT1; slow skeletal muscle troponin T1
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Introduction: Nemaline myopathy (NM) is a congenital neuromuscular disorder often characterized by hypotonia, facial weakness, skeletal muscle weakness, and the presence of rods on muscle biopsy. A rare form of nemaline myopathy known as Amish Nemaline Myopathy has only been seen in a genetically isolated cohort of Old Order Amish patients who may additionally present with tremors in the first 2-3 months of life. Methods: We describe an Hispanic male diagnosed with nemaline myopathy histopathologically and subsequently confirmed by next generation gene sequencing. Results: Direct sequencing revealed that he is homozygous for a pathogenic nonsense variant c.323C>G (p.S108X) in exon 9 of the TNNT1 gene. Conclusions: This report describes a novel pathogenic variant in the TNNT1 gene and represents a nemaline myopathy-causing variant in the TNNT1 gene outside of the Old Order Amish and Dutch ancestry. Muscle Nerve51:767-772, 2015
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