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
Muscular dystrophy congenital, merosin negative
1.000 Biomarker disease MGD Dystrophia Muscularis: A HEREDITARY PRIMARY MYOPATHY IN THE HOUSE MOUSE. 16589799 1955
Muscular dystrophy congenital, merosin negative
1.000 GeneticVariation disease CLINVAR High creatine kinase levels and white matter changes: clinical and genetic spectrum of congenital muscular dystrophies with laminin alpha-2 deficiency. 24225367 2014
Muscular dystrophy congenital, merosin negative
1.000 GeneticVariation disease CLINVAR Genetics of laminin alpha 2 chain (or merosin) deficient congenital muscular dystrophy: from identification of mutations to prenatal diagnosis. 9185182 1997
Muscular dystrophy congenital, merosin negative
1.000 CausalMutation disease CLINVAR LAMA2 gene analysis in a cohort of 26 congenital muscular dystrophy patients. 18700894 2008
Muscular dystrophy congenital, merosin negative
1.000 GeneticVariation disease CLINVAR LAMA2 gene analysis in congenital muscular dystrophy: new mutations, prenatal diagnosis, and founder effect. 16216942 2005
Muscular dystrophy congenital, merosin negative
1.000 GeneticVariation disease CLINVAR Atypical phenotype in two patients with LAMA2 mutations. 24534542 2014
Muscular dystrophy congenital, merosin negative
1.000 GeneticVariation disease CLINVAR Structure of the C-terminal laminin G-like domain pair of the laminin alpha2 chain harbouring binding sites for alpha-dystroglycan and heparin. 10747011 2000
Muscular dystrophy congenital, merosin negative
1.000 Biomarker disease MGD Proinflammatory signals and the loss of lymphatic vessel hyaluronan receptor-1 (LYVE-1) in the early pathogenesis of laminin alpha2-deficient skeletal muscle. 20876525 2011
Muscular dystrophy congenital, merosin negative
1.000 GeneticVariation disease CLINVAR RNA splicing. The human splicing code reveals new insights into the genetic determinants of disease. 25525159 2015
Muscular dystrophy congenital, merosin negative
1.000 Biomarker disease CTD_human
Muscular dystrophy congenital, merosin negative
1.000 Biomarker disease GENOMICS_ENGLAND Congenital muscular dystrophy with primary partial laminin alpha2 chain deficiency: molecular study. 11591858 2001
Muscular dystrophy congenital, merosin negative
1.000 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Recessive mutations in LAMA2 commonly cause congenital muscular dystrophy (MDC1A) and, rarely, limb girdle muscular dystrophy (LGMD). 27932089 2017
Muscular dystrophy congenital, merosin negative
1.000 Biomarker disease MGD Spontaneous muscular dystrophy caused by a retrotransposal insertion in the mouse laminin alpha2 chain gene. 12609503 2003
Muscular dystrophy congenital, merosin negative
1.000 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Recently, these strategies have also been explored in many other genetic disorders, including dysferlin-deficient muscular dystrophy (e.g., Miyoshi myopathy; MM, limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 2B; LGMD2B, and distal myopathy with anterior tibial onset; DMAT), laminin α2 chain (merosin)-deficient congenital muscular dystrophy (MDC1A), sarcoglycanopathy (e.g., limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 2C; LGMD2C), and Fukuyama congenital muscular dystrophy (FCMD). 30171536 2018
Muscular dystrophy congenital, merosin negative
1.000 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE This study provides valuable methods for determining the molecular defects in LAMA2 causing merosin deficient congenital muscular dystrophy. 9541105 1998
Muscular dystrophy congenital, merosin negative
1.000 Biomarker disease MGD Activation of the lama2 gene in muscle regeneration: abortive regeneration in laminin alpha2-deficiency. 10616210 1999
Muscular dystrophy congenital, merosin negative
1.000 Biomarker disease MGD Synaptic plasticity in the dy2J mouse model of laminin alpha2-deficient congenital muscular dystrophy. 15823249 2005
Muscular dystrophy congenital, merosin negative
1.000 GeneticVariation disease CLINVAR PCR based mutation screening of the laminin alpha2 chain gene (LAMA2): application to prenatal diagnosis and search for founder effects in congenital muscular dystrophy. 9541105 1998
Muscular dystrophy congenital, merosin negative
1.000 GeneticVariation disease CLINVAR Congenital muscular dystrophies in the UK population: Clinical and molecular spectrum of a large cohort diagnosed over a 12-year period. 28688748 2017
Muscular dystrophy congenital, merosin negative
1.000 GeneticVariation disease CLINVAR The crystal structure of a laminin G-like module reveals the molecular basis of alpha-dystroglycan binding to laminins, perlecan, and agrin. 10619025 1999
Muscular dystrophy congenital, merosin negative
1.000 GeneticVariation disease CLINVAR Laminin α2 Deficiency-Related Muscular Dystrophy Mimicking Emery-Dreifuss and Collagen VI related Diseases. 27858741 2015
Muscular dystrophy congenital, merosin negative
1.000 CausalMutation disease CLINVAR Mild muscular dystrophy due to a nonsense mutation in the LAMA2 gene resulting in exon skipping. 11287370 2001
Muscular dystrophy congenital, merosin negative
1.000 GeneticVariation disease CLINVAR LAMA2 gene analysis in a cohort of 26 congenital muscular dystrophy patients. 18700894 2008
Muscular dystrophy congenital, merosin negative
1.000 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE In Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) and LAMA2-mutated congenital muscular dystrophy (MDC1A) we also quantitated transcript levels of the profibrotic cytokine TGF-beta1. 16183658 2005
Muscular dystrophy congenital, merosin negative
1.000 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Merosin-deficient congenital muscular dystrophy (CMD) is caused by mutations in the laminin alpha 2 chain gene. 9027848 1996