ArticleInternational journal of molecular sciences2022
Bi-Allelic
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- Natural History, Phenotype Spectrum, and Clinical Outcomes of Desmin (Circulation. Genomic and precision medicine · 2025Pooled it
- Is Cardiac Transplantation Still a Contraindication in Patients with Muscular Dystrophy-Related End-Stage Dilated Cardiomyopathy? A Systematic Review.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Pooled it
- Case Report: A first case of desmin-related myofibrillar myopathy due to inheritance from a confirmed mosaic asymptomatic carrier.Frontiers in genetics · 2025Article
- A child with dilated cardiomyopathy and homozygous splice site variant inMolecular genetics and metabolism reports · 2024Article
- Camptocormia due to myotinilopathy, Parkinson's disease, or both? : Camptocormia and axial myopathy.Neurological research and practice · 2023Article
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Abstract
Mutations in the human desmin gene (DES) may cause both autosomal dominant and recessive cardiomyopathies leading to heart failure, arrhythmias and atrio-ventricular blocks, or progressive myopathies. Cardiac conduction disorders, arrhythmias and cardiomyopathies usually associated with progressive myopathy are the main manifestations of autosomal dominant desminopathies, due to mono-allelic pathogenic variants. The recessive forms, due to bi-allelic variants, are very rare and exhibit variable phenotypes in which premature sudden cardiac death could also occur in the first or second decade of life. We describe a further case of autosomal recessive desminopathy in an Italian boy born of consanguineous parents, who developed progressive myopathy at age 12, and dilated cardiomyopathy four years later and died of intractable heart failure at age 17. Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) analysis identified the homozygous loss-of-function variant c.634C>T; p.Arg212*, which was likely inherited from both parents. Furthermore, we performed a comparison of clinical and genetic results observed in our patient with those of cases so far reported in the literature.
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