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X-linked congenital myopathy with fiber-type disproportion

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A congenital fiber-type disproportion characterized by bilateral ptosis, facial weakness, impaired suckling, generalized hypotonia, and respiratory insufficiency that has_material_basis_in mutation in the chromosome region Xq13.1-q22.1.

Signs and symptoms

  • Decreased body weight
  • Polyhydramnios
  • Generalized neonatal hypotonia
  • Facial palsy
  • Short stature
  • Respiratory distress
  • Myopathy
  • Poor suck
  • Frontalis muscle weakness
  • Ptosis

Also known as: CFTDX