Laing distal myopathy

Evidence-based neurology checklist on laing distal myopathy: Genetics This is a myosinopathy It is caused by MYH7 gene mutations on chromosome 14 The transmission is autosomal dominant It is allelic with hyaline body myopathy The onset age is 4-25 years Early weakness: features Later features:…

Genetics

  • This is a myosinopathy
  • It is caused by MYH7 gene mutations on chromosome 14
  • The transmission is autosomal dominant
  • It is allelic with hyaline body myopathy
  • The onset age is 4-25 years

Early weakness: features

Later features: affected muscles

Other features

Muscle biopsy

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) muscle: sites of atrophy and signal intensity

Other investigations

References

  1. Mastaglia FL, Laing NG. Distal myopathies: clinical and molecular diagnosis and clarification. JNNP 1999; 67:703-709.
  2. Malicdan MCV, Nonaka I. Distal myopathies a review: Highlights on distal myopathies with rimmed vacuoles. Neurol India 2008; 56:314-324.
  3. Lamont PJ, Udd B, Mastaglia FL, et al. Laing early onset distal myopathy: slow myosin defect with variable abnormalities on muscle biopsy. JNNP 2006; 77:208-215. 
  4. Meredith C, Herrmann R, Parry C, et al. Mutations in the slow skeletal muscle fiber myosin heavy chain gene (MYH7) cause laing early-onset distal myopathy (MPD1). Am J Hum Genet 2004; 75:703-708.
  5. Yu M, Zhu Y, Lu Y, Lv H, Zhang W, Yuan Y, Wang Z. Clinical features and genotypes of Laing distal myopathy in a group of Chinese patients, with in-frame deletions of MYH7 as common mutations. Orphanet J Rare Dis 2020; 15:344.
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