Background and Objective Desminopathy is a largely heterogeneous group of conditions involving inherited or sporadic myofibrillar myopathy.In terms of its mode of inheritance,the autosomal dominant form is predominant...Background and Objective Desminopathy is a largely heterogeneous group of conditions involving inherited or sporadic myofibrillar myopathy.In terms of its mode of inheritance,the autosomal dominant form is predominant.Desmin gene(DES)mutations play a critical role among the pathogenic inherited factors associated with desminopathy.Desminopathy involves various phenotypes,mainly including different cardiomyopathies,skeletal myopathy and arrhythmia.The purposes of this study are characterization of a novel phenotype and identification of a DES splicing mutation in a Chinese family with desminnopathy.展开更多
基金supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai the Science and Technology Commission Shanghai Municipality(19ZR1475100)the Equipment Pre-research Fund(61407210207)the Sichuan Science and Technology Program(2021JDRC0015)。
文摘Background and Objective Desminopathy is a largely heterogeneous group of conditions involving inherited or sporadic myofibrillar myopathy.In terms of its mode of inheritance,the autosomal dominant form is predominant.Desmin gene(DES)mutations play a critical role among the pathogenic inherited factors associated with desminopathy.Desminopathy involves various phenotypes,mainly including different cardiomyopathies,skeletal myopathy and arrhythmia.The purposes of this study are characterization of a novel phenotype and identification of a DES splicing mutation in a Chinese family with desminnopathy.
