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muscular dystrophy-dystroglycanopathy type B15

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A muscular dystrophy-dystroglycanopathy type B that has_material_basis_in homozygous or compound heterozygous mutation in the DPM3 gene on chromosome 1q22.

Signs and symptoms

  • Centrally nucleated skeletal muscle fibers
  • Delayed ability to walk
  • Myopathy
  • Delayed ability to stand
  • Highly elevated creatine kinase
  • Generalized non-motor (absence) seizure
  • Abnormal periventricular white matter morphology
  • Motor delay
  • Increased variability in muscle fiber diameter

Also known as: MDDGB15; congenital muscular dystrophy DPM3-related