The results demonstrate that tamoxifen and raloxifene hold significant potential for treating FKRP-related muscular dystrophy and probably other muscular dystrophies.
Fukutin-related protein (FKRP) muscular dystrophy (n=6) was the most common diagnosis, followed by anoctaminopathy-5 (n=3), calpainopathy-3 (n=2) and dystrophinopathy (n=2).
FKRP mutations account for a broad spectrum of patients with muscular dystrophy, from a severe congenital form with or without mental retardation (MDC1C) to a much milder limb-girdle muscular dystrophy (LGMD2I).
Other genes (POMT1, POMGnT1, fukutin, and FKRP) that encode known or putative glycosylation enzymes are also causally associated with human congenital muscular dystrophies.
We studied cerebral MRIs in twelve patients with FKRP-associated muscular dystrophy presenting in infancy or early childhood, at ages between 14 months and 43 years.
Mutations in the fukutin-related protein gene account for a broad spectrum of phenotypes ranging from severe congenital muscular dystrophies to a much milder limb-girdle muscular dystrophy 2I.
FKRP mutations account for a broad spectrum of patients with muscular dystrophy, from a severe congenital form with or without mental retardation (MDC1C) to a much milder limb-girdle muscular dystrophy (LGMD2I).
Of the cases where the CAPN3 gene was not affected, approximately 20% were diagnosed as LGMD2Imuscular dystrophy, while facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) was uncommon in this sample.
Downregulating FKRP expression in zebrafish by two different morpholinos resulted in embryos which had developmental defects similar to those observed in human muscular dystrophies associated with mutations in FKRP.
There is a marked variation in clinical phenotypes that have been associated with mutations in FKRP, ranging from severe congenital muscular dystrophies to limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 2I (LGMD2I).
Muscular dystrophy-dystroglycanopathies (MDDGs) resulting from fukutin-related protein (<i>FKRP</i>) gene mutations are rare disorders that result in a wide spectrum of clinical severity based on the age of onset, the degree of myogenic atrophy, and/or neurologic involvement.
Limb girdle muscular dystrophy type 2I (LGMD2I) is an autosomal recessive muscular dystrophy that is rare in Asia and is caused by mutations in the fukutin-related protein gene (<i>FKRP</i>).