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muscular dystrophy-dystroglycanopathy type B2

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A muscular dystrophy-dystroglycanopathy type B that has_material_basis_in homozygous or compound heterozygous mutation in the POMT2 gene on chromosome 14q24.3.

Signs and symptoms

  • Inability to walk
  • Cerebral cortical atrophy
  • Hypotonia
  • Severe intellectual disability
  • Cerebellar vermis hypoplasia
  • Generalized muscle weakness
  • Microcephaly
  • Muscular dystrophy
  • Elevated circulating creatine kinase activity
  • Facial palsy

Also known as: MDDGB2; congenital muscular dystrophy POMT2-related