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nemaline myopathy 10

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A nemaline myopathy characterized by early-onset generalized muscle weakness and hypotonia with respiratory insufficiency and feeding difficulties that has_material_basis_in homozygous or compound heterozygous mutation in the LMOD3 gene on chromosome 3p14.

Signs and symptoms

  • Facial palsy
  • Generalized muscle weakness
  • Bulbar palsy
  • Feeding difficulties
  • Severe muscular hypotonia
  • Generalized hypotonia
  • Fatty replacement of skeletal muscle
  • Respiratory insufficiency due to muscle weakness
  • Muscle weakness
  • Nemaline bodies

Also known as: NEM10; congenital myopathy 10