Contractures and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in a novel FHL1 mutation

Item Type:	Article
Title:	Contractures and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in a novel FHL1 mutation
Creators Name:	Knoblauch, H. and Geier, C. and Adams, S. and Budde, B. and Rudolph, A. and Zacharias, U. and Schulz-Menger, J. and Spuler, A. and Yaou, R.B. and Nuernberg, P. and Voit, T. and Bonne, G. and Spuler, S.
Abstract:	We investigated a large German family (n = 37) with male members who had contractures, rigid spine syndrome, and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Muscle weakness or atrophy was not prominent in affected individuals. Muscle biopsy disclosed a myopathic pattern with cytoplasmic bodies. We used microsatellite markers and found linkage to a locus at Xq26-28, a region harboring the FHL1 gene. We sequenced FHL1 and identified a new missense mutation within the third LIM domain that replaces a highly conserved cysteine by an arginine (c.625T>C; p.C209R). Our finding expands the phenotypic spectrum of the recently identified FHL1-associated myopathies and widens the differential diagnosis of Emery-Dreifuss-like syndromes.
Keywords:	Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy, Contracture, Germany, Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins, Linkage (Genetics), Microsatellite Repeats, Muscle Proteins, Missense Mutation, Pedigree, Phenotype, DNA Sequence Analysis, Amino Acid Sequence Homology, Sex Factors
Source:	Annals of Neurology
ISSN:	0364-5134
Publisher:	Wiley
Volume:	67
Number:	1
Page Range:	136-140
Date:	January 2010
Official Publication:	https://doi.org/10.1002/ana.21839
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