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Congenital Myopathies: An Update

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Congenital myopathy is a clinicopathological concept of characteristic histopathological findings on muscle biopsy in a patient with early-onset weakness. Three main categories are recognized within the classical congenital myopathies: nemaline myopathy, core myopathy, and centronuclear myopathy. Recent evidence of overlapping clinical and histological features between the classical forms and their different genetic entities suggests that there may be shared pathomechanisms between the congenital myopathies. Animal models, especially mouse and zebrafish, have been especially helpful in elucidating such pathomechanisms associated with the congenital myopathies and provide models in which future therapies can be investigated.

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Acknowledgements

CGB’s research is supported by the Intramural Research Program of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, JD is supported by an NIH K08 award (NIH1K08AR054835). We apologize to researchers whose work could not be cited due to this reviews restrictions in length and focus.

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  1. Department of Neurology, Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, DC, 20010, USA

    Jessica R. Nance

  2. Departments of Pediatrics, Neurology, and Neuroscience, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109-2200, USA

    James J. Dowling

  3. Departments of Neurology and Neuroscience, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109-2200, USA

    Elizabeth M. Gibbs

  4. Neuromuscular and Neurogenetic Disorders of Childhood Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke/NIH, Porter Neuroscience Research Center, 35 Convent Drive (Bldg 35), Room 2A-116, Bethesda, MD, 20892-3705, USA

    Carsten G. Bönnemann

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Nance, J.R., Dowling, J.J., Gibbs, E.M. et al. Congenital Myopathies: An Update. Curr Neurol Neurosci Rep 12, 165–174 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11910-012-0255-x

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