Conditions / Genetic

congenital muscular dystrophy-dystroglycanopathy type A6

info ยท Genetic

A congenital muscular dystrophy-dystroglycanopathy type A that has_material_basis_in homozygous or compound heterozygous mutation in LARGE on 22q12.3.

Signs and symptoms

  • Elevated circulating creatine kinase activity
  • Generalized hypotonia
  • Aplasia of the inferior half of the cerebellar vermis
  • Global developmental delay
  • Areflexia
  • Flexion contracture
  • Severe muscular hypotonia
  • Pigmentary retinopathy
  • Increased endomysial connective tissue
  • Dilated third ventricle

Also known as: MDDGA6; Walker-Warburg syndrome or muscle-eye-brain disease, LARGE-related; congenital muscular dystrophy-dystroglycanopathy with brain and eye anomalies type A6