Abstract:The paper reports on two cases of young women from Ukraine with autosomal recessive limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 2A with different age of symptoms onset and an absence of any family history presented with gradual onset of proximal muscle weakness in four limbs and thinning of shoulders, arms and thighs. Both patients had elevated creatine phosphokinase level and c.550delA mutations in CAPN3 gene. Sequence analysis and deletion/duplication testing of the 159 genes from skeletal muscles disease testing pa… Show more
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