[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in nemaline myopathy

J Laitila, C Wallgren-Pettersson - Neuromuscular Disorders, 2021 - Elsevier
The nemaline myopathies constitute a large proportion of the congenital or structural
myopathies. Common to all patients is muscle weakness and the presence in the muscle …

Is gene-size an issue for the diagnosis of skeletal muscle disorders?

M Savarese, S Välipakka, M Johari… - Journal of …, 2020 - content.iospress.com
Human genes have a variable length. Those having a coding sequence of extraordinary
length and a high number of exons were almost impossible to sequence using the traditional …

NRAP reduction rescues sarcomere defects in nebulin-related nemaline myopathy

JG Casey, ES Kim, R Joseph, F Li… - Human Molecular …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Nemaline myopathy (NM) is a rare neuromuscular disorder associated with congenital or
childhood-onset of skeletal muscle weakness and hypotonia, which results in limited motor …

The number of Z-repeats and super-repeats in nebulin greatly varies across vertebrates and scales with animal size

J Gohlke, P Tonino, J Lindqvist, JE Smith III… - Journal of General …, 2020 - rupress.org
Nebulin is a skeletal muscle protein that associates with the sarcomeric thin filaments and
has functions in regulating the length of the thin filament and the structure of the Z-disk. Here …

Removal of MuRF1 increases muscle mass in nemaline myopathy models, but does not provide functional benefits

J Lindqvist, J Kolb, J de Winter, P Tonino… - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Nemaline myopathy (NM) is characterized by skeletal muscle weakness and atrophy. No
curative treatments exist for this debilitating disease. NM is caused by mutations in proteins …

[HTML][HTML] Case report: A novel ACTA1 variant in a patient with nemaline rods and increased glycogen deposition

D Piga, M Rimoldi, F Magri, S Zanotti, L Napoli… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Background Congenital myopathies are a group of heterogeneous inherited disorders,
mainly characterized by early-onset hypotonia and muscle weakness. The spectrum of …

Case report: Homozygous variants of NEB and KLHL40 in two Arab patients with nemaline myopathy

C Skrypnyk, AA Husain, HY Hassan, J Ahmed… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Objective: Nemaline myopathies are a heterogeneous group of congenital myopathies
caused by mutations in different genes associated with the structural and functional proteins …

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V Melli, RB Larsen, JD Karlsen… - … Technology Aimed at …, 2023 - books.google.com
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[PDF][PDF] Genetic and Functional Studies of Ultra-Rare Diseases

J Lehtonen - 2024 - helda.helsinki.fi
Humans manifest around 10 000 different rare diseases. This might, however, be an
underestimation. Rare diseases are individually rare, but when all rare diseases are taken …

Using Zebrafish to Study Multi-Exon Skipping as a Potential Therapy for Nemaline Myopathy

S Viththiyapaskaran - 2021 - search.proquest.com
Nemaline Myopathy (NM) is one of the most common forms of congenital myopathy. There
are currently no therapies. Mutations in the gene nebulin (NEB) accounts for at least 50% of …