Table 3.

A summary of patients under study, including age of onset, biochemical analysis, clinical examination, and muscle biopsy results

Patients	Gender	Age (y)	Age at follow-up (months)	Age of onset	Consanguinity	Prominent symptoms	MRI before the age one	CK (U/l)#	LDH (U/l)	Aldolase (U/l)	Muscle biopsy/IHC
1	M	7	10	birth	Yes	Muscle weakness, inactivity, hypotonia, kyphosis	normal	1248	2005	13.9	Merosin positive CMD
2	M	5	5	birth	No	Hypotonia, myopathic face, kyphoscoliosis	normal	1762	871	21.0	Merosin positive CMD
3	M	6	5	birth	Yes	Hypotonia, kyphosis	normal	6304	NA	44.0	Merosin positive CMD

^#CK normal range: 200-400 U/l depending on the laboratory[11] .NA, not assigned