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| Year : 2013 | Volume
: 61
| Issue : 6 | Page : 622--626 |
New mutation of the desmin gene identified in an extended Indian pedigree presenting with distal myopathy and cardiac disease
Atchayaram Nalini1, Narayanappa Gayathri2, Pascale Richard3, Ana-Maria Cobo4, J Andoni Urtizberea4
1 Department of Neurology, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
2 Department of Neuropathology, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
3 Department of Genetics, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, 75651 Paris, France
4 Department of Neurology, Neuromuscular Unit, Marin Hospital, 64700 Hendaye, France
Correspondence Address:
Atchayaram Nalini
Department of Neurology, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bengaluru, Karnataka
India
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DOI: 10.4103/0028-3886.125269
In this report, we describe a new mutation located in the coiled 1B domain of desmin and associated with a predominant cardiac involvement and a high degree of cardiac sudden death in a large Indian pedigree with 12 affected members. The index cases was 38-year-old man who presented with progressive difficulty in gripping footwear of 5 years duration with the onset in the left lower limb followed by right lower limb in 6 months. 3 years from onset, he developed lower limb proximal and truncal muscle weakness. There was mild atrophy of the shoulder girdle muscles with grade 3 weakness, moderate wasting of thigh and anterior leg muscles with proximal muscle weakness and foot drop. At 40 years, he had a pacemaker implanted. The 9 exons and intronic boundaries of the desmin gene were sequenced and a heterozygous nucleotide change c. 734A > G in exon 3 was identified.
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