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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Muhammad E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3842179 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Human molecular genetics 20130809 25
Congenital myopathies are heterogeneous inherited diseases of muscle characterized by a range of distinctive histologic abnormalities. We have studied a consanguineous family with congenital myopathy. Genome-wide linkage analysis and whole-exome sequencing identified a homozygous non-sense mutation in 3-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydratase 1 (HACD1) in affected individuals. The mutation results in non-sense mediated decay of the HACD1 mRNA to 31% of control levels in patient muscle and completely abrogat ...[more]