LAMA2, laminin subunit alpha 2, 3908

N. diseases: 167; N. variants: 127
Source: ALL
Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
CUI: C0026850
Disease: Muscular Dystrophy
Muscular Dystrophy
0.500 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Patients with a partial reduction of merosin due to mutations in the laminin-α2 chain gene usually present with a mild form of congenital muscular dystrophy or a limb-girdle-like muscular dystrophy. 22006699 2011
CUI: C0026850
Disease: Muscular Dystrophy
Muscular Dystrophy
0.500 GeneticVariation disease LHGDN LAMA2 loss-of-function mutation in a girl with a mild congenital muscular dystrophy. 15452315 2004
CUI: C0026850
Disease: Muscular Dystrophy
Muscular Dystrophy
0.500 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Mild muscular dystrophy due to a nonsense mutation in the LAMA2 gene resulting in exon skipping. 11287370 2001
CUI: C0026850
Disease: Muscular Dystrophy
Muscular Dystrophy
0.500 GeneticVariation disease LHGDN Clinical and molecular study in congenital muscular dystrophy with partial laminin alpha 2 (LAMA2) deficiency. 12552556 2003
CUI: C0026850
Disease: Muscular Dystrophy
Muscular Dystrophy
0.500 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE An early onset muscular dystrophy with diaphragmatic involvement, early respiratory failure and secondary alpha2 laminin deficiency unlinked to the LAMA2 locus on 6q22. 10726842 1998
CUI: C0026850
Disease: Muscular Dystrophy
Muscular Dystrophy
0.500 GeneticVariation disease CLINVAR
CUI: C0026850
Disease: Muscular Dystrophy
Muscular Dystrophy
0.500 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Mice with a homozygous mutation in Lama2 (dy2J mice) express a nonpolymerizing form of laminin-211 (Lm211) and are a model for ambulatory-type Lmα2-deficient muscular dystrophy. 28218617 2017
CUI: C0026850
Disease: Muscular Dystrophy
Muscular Dystrophy
0.500 GeneticVariation disease LHGDN LAMA2 gene analysis in a cohort of 26 congenital muscular dystrophy patients. 18700894 2008
CUI: C0026850
Disease: Muscular Dystrophy
Muscular Dystrophy
0.500 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE This laminin-α2 deficient mutant fish represents a novel disease model to develop therapies for modulating splicing defects in congenital muscular dystrophies and to restore the muscle function in human patients with CMD. 22952766 2012
CUI: C0026850
Disease: Muscular Dystrophy
Muscular Dystrophy
0.500 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Mutations in the LAMA2 gene cause laminin α‑2 (merosin)‑deficient congenital muscular dystrophies, which are autosomal recessive muscle disorders. 25544356 2015
CUI: C0026850
Disease: Muscular Dystrophy
Muscular Dystrophy
0.500 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Interestingly, one of the remaining tumors has a deletion in LAMA2, bringing the number of ONBs with deletions of genes involved in the development of muscular dystrophies to 13 or 93%. 30575736 2018
CUI: C0026850
Disease: Muscular Dystrophy
Muscular Dystrophy
0.500 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE <i>L</i><i>AMA2</i>-related muscular dystrophy (<i>LAMA2</i> MD or MDC1A) is the most frequent form of early-onset, fatal congenital muscular dystrophies. 28659438 2017
CUI: C0026850
Disease: Muscular Dystrophy
Muscular Dystrophy
0.500 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Mutations in the LAMA2 gene result in a complete loss of merosin and underlie a severe congenital type of muscular dystrophy (MDC1A).We investigated the clinical, genetic, and histological basis of late-onset muscular dystrophy in one family. 21922472 2011
CUI: C0026850
Disease: Muscular Dystrophy
Muscular Dystrophy
0.500 GeneticVariation disease LHGDN Merosin-deficient congenital muscular dystrophy, autosomal recessive (MDC1A, MIM#156225, LAMA2 gene coding for alpha2 chain of laminin). 11938437 2002
CUI: C0026850
Disease: Muscular Dystrophy
Muscular Dystrophy
0.500 GeneticVariation disease LHGDN Merosin-deficient congenital muscular dystrophy with mental retardation and cerebellar cysts, unlinked to the LAMA2, FCMD, MEB and CMD1B loci, in three Tunisian patients. 12467726 2003
CUI: C0026850
Disease: Muscular Dystrophy
Muscular Dystrophy
0.500 GeneticVariation disease LHGDN LAMA2 mRNA processing alterations generate a complete deficiency of laminin-alpha2 protein and a severe congenital muscular dystrophy. 18053718 2008
CUI: C0026850
Disease: Muscular Dystrophy
Muscular Dystrophy
0.500 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Congenital muscular dystrophy type 1A (MDC1A) is a devastating form of muscular dystrophy caused by laminin α2 chain-deficiency. 28281577 2017
CUI: C0026850
Disease: Muscular Dystrophy
Muscular Dystrophy
0.500 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE High creatine kinase levels and white matter changes: clinical and genetic spectrum of congenital muscular dystrophies with laminin alpha-2 deficiency. 24225367 2014
CUI: C0026850
Disease: Muscular Dystrophy
Muscular Dystrophy
0.500 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE In this review, we summarize the clinical features of two of the most common congenital muscular dystrophies, COL6-related dystrophies and LAMA2-related dystrophies, which are caused by mutations in muscle ECM and basement membrane proteins. 29933045 2018
CUI: C0026850
Disease: Muscular Dystrophy
Muscular Dystrophy
0.500 Biomarker disease BEFREE We suggest that expression profiling will provide important information to improve our understanding of the molecular basis of laminin alpha-2 positive MDC. 17010933 2006
CUI: C0026850
Disease: Muscular Dystrophy
Muscular Dystrophy
0.500 Biomarker disease LHGDN Prenatal diagnosis in laminin alpha2 chain (merosin)-deficient congenital muscular dystrophy: a collective experience of five international centers. 16084089 2005
CUI: C0026850
Disease: Muscular Dystrophy
Muscular Dystrophy
0.500 Biomarker disease BEFREE We conducted a two-year pilot study to evaluate feasibility, reliability, and validity of various outcome measures, particularly the Motor Function Measure 32, in 33 subjects with COL6-RD and LAMA2-RD. 25307854 2015
CUI: C0026850
Disease: Muscular Dystrophy
Muscular Dystrophy
0.500 Biomarker disease BEFREE Several mutations in the LN domains cause LAMA2-deficient muscular dystrophy and LAMB2-deficient Pierson syndrome. 29408412 2018
CUI: C0026850
Disease: Muscular Dystrophy
Muscular Dystrophy
0.500 Biomarker disease LHGDN Laminin alpha1 chain mediated reduction of laminin alpha2 chain deficient muscular dystrophy involves integrin alpha7beta1 and dystroglycan. 16504180 2006
CUI: C0026850
Disease: Muscular Dystrophy
Muscular Dystrophy
0.500 Biomarker disease BEFREE Blocking apoptosis ameliorates muscle disease in some mouse models of muscular dystrophy such as laminin α-2-deficient mice, but not in others such as dystrophin-deficient (mdx) mice. 21199860 2011