The lethal phenotype of a homozygous nonsense mutation in the lamin A/C gene

B. G. M. van Engelen, A. Muchir, C. J. Hutchison, A. J. van der Kooi, G. Bonne, M. Lammens

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Abstract

The authors report the clinical and histologic phenotypes of a LGMD1B family including a newborn child with a homozygous LMNA nonsense mutation (Y259X). At the heterozygous state the nonsense mutation leads to a classic LGMD1B phenotype; the homozygous LMNA nonsense mutation causes a lethal phenotype
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)374-376
JournalNeurology
Volume64
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2005

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