A novel compound heterozygous FKRP gene mutation was identified as the cause of a mild limb girdle muscular dystrophy R9 phenotype in two siblings.
Alerts clinicians to LGDMR9 in late-onset mild dystrophy; extends spectrum but leaves pathogenicity and prevalence open.
variant and presenting a mild LGDMR9 phenotype. For mutation screening, massive parallel sequencing was performed, followed by Sanger sequencing and multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification (MLPA) to validate the existence of the discovered variants. The absence of alpha-dystroglycan was determined by immunohistochemistry. Brain and thigh magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) were performed to detect thigh and brain abnormalities. The two siblings had a late age at onset and clinical examination showed that the pelvic girdles had a predominantly proximal and symmetrical distribution of weakness without cardiac or respiratory involvement. They both had a modified Gardner-Medwin Walton Scale mGMWS grade of 4 and a modified Rankin Scale (mRS) score of 1. The DNA sequencing revealed a novel deletion of exons 2 and 3 in one allele and a missense mutation c.1364C > A, which has been reported to be responsible for congenital muscular dystrophy and mental retardation on the second allele. The simultaneous presence of the two variations in the two cases suggests that the variants segregate with the pathophysiology.
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