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GENE TABLE
Gene table: Congenital muscular dystrophies F MUNTONI Department of Paediatric Neurology, Imperial College Faculty of Medicine, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK
Gene table: Congenital Muscular Dystrophies (CMD) Name
Abbreviation
Gene location
Gene symbol
Protein
Refs
Merosin deficient CMD
MDC1A
6q2
LAMA2
laminin a2
1
Fukuyama CMD
FCMD
9q3
FKT1
fukutin
2
12q
ITGA7
integrin a7
3
Integrin a7 deficiency Muscle±Eye±Brain disease
MEB
1p3
OMGnT
b1,2-N-Acetylglucosaminyl-transferase
4
Rigid spine syndrome
RSMD1
1p3
SEPN1
SEPN1
5
CMD + secondary merosin deficiency 1
MCD1B
1q4
?
?
6
CMD + secondary merosin deficiency 2
MDC1C
19
FKRP
Fukutin related protein
7
Ullrich syndrome (1, 2, 3)
UCMD1
21q2
COL 6A1
collagen 6
8
UCMD2
21q2
COL 6A2
collagen 6
8
UCMD3
2q3
COL 6A3
collagen 6
8
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Moghadaszadeh B, Petit N, Jaillard C et al. Mutations in SEPN1 cause congenital muscular dystrophy with spinal rigidity and restrictive respiratory syndrome. Nature Genet 2001; 29: 17±18. Brockington M, Sewry CA, Herrmann R et al. Assignment of a form of congenital muscular dystrophy with secondary merosin deficiency to chromosome 1q42. Am J Hum Genet 2000; 66: 428±435. Brockington M, Blake DJ, Prandini P et al. Mutations in the fukutin-related protein gene (FKRP) cause a form of congenital muscular dystrophy with secondary laminin a2 deficiency and abnormal glycosylation of a-dystroglycan. Am J Hum Gen 2002; (in press). Camacho Vanegas O, Bertini E, Zhang RZ et al. Ullrich scleroatonic muscular dystrophy is caused by recessive mutations in collagen type VI. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2001; 98: 7516±7521.
Received 17.09.2001. Accepted 25.09.2001. Correspondence: Professor F Muntoni, MD, FRCPCH, Department of Paediatrics & Neonatal Medicine, Imperial College Faculty of Medicine, Hammersmith Hospital Campus, Du Cane Road, London W12 0NN, UK. e-mail:
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