Abstract
Next-generation sequencing has led to transformative advances in our ability to diagnose rare diseases by simultaneously sequencing dozens, hundreds, or even entire genomes worth of genes to efficiently identify pathogenic mutations. These studies amount to multiple hypothesis testing on a massive scale and not infrequently lead to discovery of multiple genetic variants whose relative contributions to a patient's disease are unclear. Panel testing, in particular, can be problematic because each of the many genes being sequenced might represent a plausible explanation for a given case. We performed targeted gene panel analysis of 43 established neuromuscular disease genes in a patient with congenital fiber-type disproportion (CFTD) and fatal infantile cardiomyopathy. Initial review of variants identified changes in four genes that could be considered relevant candidates to cause this child's disease. Further analysis revealed that two of these are likely benign, but a homozygous frameshift variant in the myosin light chain 2 gene, MYL2, and a heterozygous nonsense mutation in the nebulin gene, NEB, met criteria to be classified as likely pathogenic or pathogenic. Recessive MYL2 mutations are a rare cause of CFTD associated with both skeletal and cardiomyopathy, whereas recessive NEB mutations cause nemaline myopathy. Although the proband's phenotype is likely largely explained by the MYL2 variant, the heterozygous pathogenic NEB variant cannot be ruled out as a contributing factor. This case illustrates the complexity when analyzing large numbers of variants from targeted gene panels in which each of the genes might plausibly contribute to the patient's clinical presentation.
Keywords: abnormality of the musculature of the limbs, dilated cardiomyopathy, generalized muscle weakness, generalized neonatal hypotonia, polyhydramnios, skeletal myopathy, type 1 fibers relatively smaller than type 2 fibers
INTRODUCTION
The term congenital myopathy (CM) encompasses a spectrum of clinically, histologically, and genetically variable neuromuscular disorders, many of which are caused by mutations in genes for sarcomeric proteins. Classified mainly on the basis of their histopathology, they share many clinical features, including hypotonia and proximal or generalized, and often nonprogressive, muscle weakness typically present from birth. The severity of weakness and disability varies widely from neonates with profound hypotonia and generalized weakness to patients with weakness that first manifests during childhood through delayed motor milestones or later in life with proximal weakness (North et al. 2014; Dowling et al. 2015). Serum creatine kinase levels are usually within normal limits but may be mildly to moderately elevated. The clinical manifestations of most CMs are limited largely to skeletal muscle, consistent with the restricted expression patterns of many CM genes; however, mutations of more broadly expressed genes, such as that for myotubularin, may lead to subtle findings in other organ systems (Herman et al. 1999; Beggs et al. 2018), and defects in genes with both skeletal and cardiac muscle expression, such as titin, may lead to either a predominantly skeletal or cardiac myopathy or both (Herman et al. 2012; Ceyhan-Birsoy et al. 2013).
Traditionally histology has been used as the basis to subcategorize the CMs, and diagnoses are based on the presence of diagnostic pathological findings in the context of primary hypotonia or weakness. Reflecting their relatively nonprogressive course, muscle biopsies typically lack evidence for a dystrophic process of myofiber death and regeneration but instead are characterized by relatively stable and unique ultrastructural defects. Some of the most commonly recognized conditions include the nemaline (rod body) myopathies (NMs), core myopathies (such as central core and multiminicore diseases), the centronuclear/myotubular myopathies, and isolated fiber-type disproportions. Each clinicopathological diagnosis is genetically heterogeneous. For example, although recessive nebulin gene (NEB) mutations are responsible for about half of NM cases (Lehtokari et al. 2014), there are upward of a dozen different genes associated with NM (North et al. 2014; Dowling et al. 2015). Furthermore, mutations of many CM genes can cause a variety of distinct histopathological and clinical presentations—for example, mutations of the TPM2 gene encoding skeletal muscle tropomyosin, which can present as cap myopathy, NM, congenital fiber-type disproportion (CFTD), Escobar syndrome, or distal arthrogryposis (Marttila et al. 2014). Further complicating diagnosis is the fact that many of these features can be found together—for example, families in whom some affected members may have either nemaline rods or CFTD or both (Marttila et al. 2014) or co-occurrence of rods and cores (Agrawal et al. 2007).
Fiber-type disproportions, particularly with abnormally small type 1 fibers, are fairly common in muscle biopsies from patients with a variety of CMs, and when paired with prominent nemaline bodies or cores are typically considered secondary nondiagnostic findings. However, patients with primary skeletal muscle weakness whose muscle exhibits only small type 1 fibers have been classified as having CFTD (DeChene et al. 2007; Clarke 2011). Most cases of CFTD are associated with mutations in TPM3, encoding the type 1 fiber-specific slow α-tropomyosin (Clarke et al. 2008; Lawlor et al. 2010), but there is a plethora of other muscle genes whose mutations have been found in patients meeting criteria for CFTD, including ACTA1 (Laing et al. 2004), MYH7 (Sobrido et al. 2005), RYR1 (Clarke et al. 2010), SELENON/SEPN1 (Clarke et al. 2006), and TPM2 (Clarke et al. 2012). Mutations of the LMNA gene, coding for lamin A/C, have also been identified in several Japanese patients with fiber-type disproportion, although these cases were characterized by type 2 fiber hypertrophy rather than type 1 hypotrophy, raising the question of whether they qualify as classical CFTD (Kajino et al. 2014). Finally, although these conditions are exclusively skeletal myopathies, type 1 fiber disproportion and weakness have also been found in association with cardiomyopathy in infants with ventricular/slow-twitch skeletal regulatory myosin light chain (MYL2) mutations (Weterman et al. 2013).
We subjected a cohort of patients with a variety of CM diagnoses to diagnostic gene panel sequencing of 43 genes associated with primary skeletal or cardiac myopathies. Here we describe one unusual case in whom we identified a predicted pathogenic homozygous frameshift variant in MYL2 as well as a heterozygous truncating nebulin (NEB) mutation. Because truncating null mutations of NEB are a known cause of NM, this case forced a reappraisal of the diagnosis and consideration of potential digenic inheritance. Although ultimately the infant's phenotype was considered to be fully explained by the homozygous MYL2 variant, the secondary finding of a pathogenic NEB mutation illustrates an increasingly common dilemma in cases subjected to targeted gene panel testing.
RESULTS
Clinical Presentation and Family History
The proband was a boy who presented with generalized hypotonia and head lag at birth. He was delivered at full term by cesarean section because of decreased fetal movement and bradycardia during induction. He had normal birth weight, length, and head circumference. Newborn exam revealed normal first and second heart sound with gallop rhythm and palpable liver at the right costal margin, as well as generalized hypotonia and diminished reflexes. Echocardiogram was performed at 11 d of age and revealed patent foramen ovale with left to right shunt and right atrial enlargement. He was discharged home with no respiratory or feeding support. His mother was a primigravida 20-yr old with learning disability and hearing loss; she denied smoking, drinking, or using illicit drugs before or during pregnancy. She had multiple ultrasound studies that were remarkable only for polyhydramnios. The father was a healthy 20-yr old with no particular medical concerns, and there was no family history of neuromuscular or genetic disorders on either side. The proband continued to show poor head control and generalized hypotonia and weakness throughout the neonatal period and beyond. A vastus lateralis biopsy performed at 5 mo of age because of persistent muscle weakness and hypotonia revealed variability in fiber size with checkerboard pattern of 1:1 ratio of type 1 and type 2 fibers exhibiting hypotrophy of type 1 fiber size in comparison to the type 2 fibers (Fig. 1). Gomori trichrome–stained light micrographs and electron microscopy (EM) showed no evidence of ragged red fibers or nemaline rods, and oxidative stains revealed no evidence of cores, targetoid, or target fibers. Genetic testing was performed for DNA polymerase γ, catalytic subunit (POLG) and Noonan syndrome genes (PTPN11, SOS1, KRAS, RAF1, BRAF, MAP2K1, MAP2K2, and HRAS), all of which were normal. There was no histopathologic evidence of Pompe disease and GAA enzyme-level testing was normal. Muscular dystrophy was considered unlikely given the histopathologic findings and normal serum creatine kinase level.
Figure 1.

Microscopic examination substantiates the diagnosis of congenital fiber-type disproportion (CFTD). (A) Gomori trichrome staining does not reveal ragged red fibers or rimmed vacuoles. No definite nemaline rods are seen. Intramuscular nerve twigs are myelinated. (B) NAHD-TR-reacted sections reveal no cores, targetoid, or target fibers. Slight predominance of type 1 fibers is seen. Type 1 fibers are significantly smaller than type 2 fibers (mean type 2 fiber diameter-mean type 1 fiber diameter/mean type 2 fiber diameter = 40%). (C) ATPase (pH 9.4) staining reveals the slight predominance of type 1 fibers and type 1 fiber hypotrophy. (D) Electron microscopy (EM) does not show any evidence of nemaline bodies.
At age 5 mo, the proband was admitted to hospital in decompensated heart failure and intubated on inotropic support. He was stabilized and successfully extubated and sent home on captopril, digoxin, Lasix, aspirin, and ubiquinone while being evaluated for heart transplant. One month later, he presented to the emergency department in what appeared to be decompensated cardiogenic shock, with severe respiratory distress, poor peripheral perfusion, and high lactate level (7.8 mmol/L). Again, he was admitted and intubated on inotropic support in the cardiac intensive care unit. Echocardiography revealed left ventricular dilatation, mild to moderate mitral valve regurgitation, and left atrial enlargement, with left ventricular function moderately to severely decreased with shortening fraction of 12% and ejection fraction of 23%. Following an unsuccessful attempt to extubate, respiratory support was withdrawn 1 wk later and the patient passed away.
Genomic Analyses
Written informed consent for research-based genetic testing was obtained from both parents under the supervision of the Boston Children's Hospital Institutional Review Board. Panel testing of 43 neuromuscular disease-related genes (Supplemental Table S1) led to the identification of four variants of particular concern for potential causal relationships to the proband's condition (Table 1; Supplemental Table S2). The proband was homozygous for variant NM_000432.3:c.188del, p.(Asn63Metfs*7) in MYL2, predicted to be pathogenic according to ACMG criteria (Supplemental Table S3; Richards et al. 2015). In addition, he had a paternally inherited heterozygous truncating NEB variant NM_001271208.2:c.25435C>T, p.(Gln8479*) predicted to be pathogenic. Both of these were Sanger confirmed in the proband and his parents (Fig. 2). The patient was also heterozygous for a titin (TTN) variant NM_001267550.2:c.33513_33515dup, p.(Glu11172dup) and hemizygous for NM_004021.2:c.3669_3681del, p.(Asp1223Glufs*6) in the DMD gene, both of which were later determined to be benign or likely benign (Supplemental Table S3).
Table 1.
Variant table
| Gene | Chr | HGVS DNA reference | HGVS protein reference | Variant type | Predicted effect | dbSNP ID | Genotype | ClinVar ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MYL2 | 12 | NM_000432.3: c.188del | NP_000423.2: p.(Asn63Metfs*7) | Deletion | Frameshift | rs1177936172 | Homozygous | NA |
| NEB | 2 | NM_001271208.2: c.25435C>T | NP_001258137.2: p.(Gln8479*) | Substitution | Stop-gained | rs778104284 | Heterozygous | NA |
| TTN | 2 | NM_001267550.2: c.33513_33515dup | NP_001254479.2: p.(Glu11172dup) | Duplication | Insertion | rs368327166 | Heterozygous | 46889 |
| DMD | X | NM_004021.2: c.3669_3681del | NP_004012.1: p.(Asp1223Glufs*6) | Deletion | Frameshift | rs752332058 | Hemizygous | 201754 |
(Chr) Chromosome, (HGVS) Human Genome Variation Society, (NA) not available.
Figure 2.
(A) DNA Sanger sequencing results of the proband (“P,” 1053-1, top tracing), mother (“M,” 1053-2), and father (“F,” 1053-3), illustrating the myosin light chain-2 (MYL2) c.188del p.(Asn63Metfs* 7) variant (arrowhead). Sequencing reads for parents are shown in both directions, demonstrating that they are heterozygous and proband homozygous for the mutation. (B) The proband (“P,” top) also has heterozygote truncating nebulin (NEB) mutation c.25435C>T p.(Gln8479*) (arrowhead). The father (“F,” bottom), but not the mother (“M,” middle) also carries this heterozygous variant.
DISCUSSION
We report a novel case of CFTD and infantile onset cardiomyopathy associated with pathogenic variants in the MYL2 and NEB genes. Myosin light chain-2 (MYL2/MLC-2) is a major sarcomeric protein of the thin filament in mammalian striated muscle of ∼19 kDa and 166 amino acids in length (Sheikh et al. 2015). This myosin regulatory light chain is expressed in slow skeletal, type 1 fibers, as well as in ventricular cardiac myocytes, where it plays a role in cross-bridge cycling kinetics and calcium-dependent cardiac muscle contraction. Dominant missense mutations were first shown to be associated with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (Poetter et al. 1996), but recently recessive frameshift mutations, affecting the last exon and associated with severe reduction or loss of detectable protein, were reported to cause a fatal infantile cardiomyopathy, with skeletal muscle involvement similar to that of our proband (Weterman et al. 2013).
Nebulin is a fundamental structural component of the skeletal muscle sarcomeric thin filament and is not expressed in the heart. It has 183 exons spanning 249 kb of genomic sequence, and recessive loss of function, and some missense variants, are the most common cause of NM (Donner et al. 2004). Our analysis concluded that the proband's severe infantile cardiomyopathy and lack of evidence for nemaline rods were most consistent with the effects of the homozygous frameshift variant in MYL2, c.188del, p.Asn63Metfs*7. A single heterozygous allele of this variant has been reported in a healthy female from the Finnish cohort in gnomAD, for an overall population allele frequency of 3.976 × 10−6 and has not been seen in any other population or disease-specific databases including 1000 Genomes, the Human Gene Mutation Database, or The Leiden Open Variation Database. Indeed, there are no instances of individuals homozygous for truncating MYL2 variants in the entire gnomAD data set. MYL2 c.188del p.(Asn63Metfs*7) has a scaled CADD score of 35 (Rentzsch et al. 2019) and, according to ACMG criteria, can be classified as “pathogenic” (Supplemental Table S3).
Recessive stop-gain and frameshift variants such as the NEB p.(Gln8479*) found in our proband occur throughout the gene and are invariably disease-causing when present in a biallelic relationship with another predicted truncating variant (Lehtokari et al. 2014). Residue Gln8479 is in the last exon of the major muscle transcript, so truncation at this point may or may not destabilize the transcript; however, there are least two additional pathogenic truncating variants distal to p.Gln8479 in the nebulin Leiden Open Variation Database (Fokkema et al. 2011), supporting a pathogenic interpretation for this variant, which also has a high scaled CADD score of 60. Nevertheless, all NEB mutations reported to date have invariably been recessive, and careful inspection of the panel data, including VisCap analysis for copy-number variation indicative of a gross deletion or duplication (Pugh et al. 2016), failed to identify a second potentially pathogenic NEB allele (data not shown), making this paternally inherited heterozygous variant less likely to be a significant contributor to disease in our proband. Furthermore, although mutations of nebulin have previously been associated with a variety of clinical presentations, including NM (Pelin et al. 1999), early-onset distal myopathy without nemaline bodies (Wallgren-Pettersson et al. 2007), a distal form of NM (Lehtokari et al. 2011), core-rod myopathy with generalized muscle weakness (Romero et al. 2009), and a childhood-onset distal myopathy with rods and cores (Scoto et al. 2013), none of these conditions feature significant cardiac pathology, consistent with the lack of NEB expression in the heart.
Although nebulin and myosin light chain-2 are not known to directly bind or interact, they have close functional associations because of their respective roles in sarcomeric thick and thin filaments, respectively. Therefore, it is worthwhile to consider whether heterozygosity for the truncating NEB variant might function as a modifier for the effects of the homozygous MYL2 variant in skeletal muscle. However, the absence of nemaline rods on Gomori trichrome–stained light micrographs and on electron micrographs failed to provide evidence in support of this hypothesis, and the clinical presentation was entirely consistent with previous reports of patients with MYL2 skeletal and cardiomyopathy.
Variants in the titin gene, TTN, and in that for dystrophin, DMD, were also flagged in the initial analysis but were more easily excluded from further consideration. The NM_001267550.2:c.33513_33515dup, p.(Glu11172dup) variant in TTN is predicted to be likely benign or benign in ClinVar largely based on its allele frequency of up to 0.0179 in Europeans and presence of 24 homozygotes across all populations in gnomAD. Given that we have also seen this allele in individuals with no evidence for a titin-related myopathy, we considered this unlikely to be a contributing factor to our proband's condition.
The DMD variant NM_004021.2:c.3669_3681del, p.(Asp1223Glufs*6) was also considered unlikely to be relevant. Not only did the proband have normal CK levels and absence of dystrophic findings on muscle biopsy, but this 13-base indel is in the 3′ untranslated region of the large primary skeletal muscle dystrophin transcript and affects only the very carboxyl terminus of the minor Dp71 and Dp141 transcripts. Given that this variant is present at an allele frequency of 0.00025 in gnomAD, including 13 hemizygous males ranging in age from 30 to 75, we consider it likely benign, which is consistent with an entry in ClinVar.
Clinical heterogeneity resulting from variable expressivity associated with some genes and variants is common among neuromuscular disorders: The same genetic mutation may lead to different pathological features in members of the same family or in the same individual over time (Bönnemann et al. 2014). For example, mutations in TPM3 have been reported in both CFTD and nemaline myopathy (NM) in members of the same family (Lawlor et al. 2010). Age, genetic modifiers, environmental factors, or the site of the muscle biopsy may influence the pathological appearance of skeletal muscle (North and Laing 2008). Another example is mutations of SELENON (formerly SEPN1), which can result in rigid spine muscular dystrophy, desmin-related myopathy with Mallory body-like inclusions, or CFTD (Dowling et al. 2015). These examples suggest that different mutations in the same gene can affect different pathogenetic pathways within the muscle sarcomere, making variant interpretation difficult when considering variants in multiple neuromuscular disease–associated genes.
Heterozygous missense mutations of MYL2 have previously been associated with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (Poetter et al. 1996). More recently, two instances of recessive MYL2 mutations have been reported to cause a novel autosomal recessive lethal myosinopathy with infantile type I muscle fiber disease and cardiomyopathy (Weterman et al. 2013). One of these, a homozygous intronic mutation of MYL2, c.403-1G>C, in a group of related Dutch families resulted in replacement of the last 32 codons with 19 new amino acids. Functional analysis of the resulting protein demonstrated significant conformational alterations and a series of abnormal protein–protein interactions in the cardiac muscle sarcomere, leading to decreased maximal contractile force production and increased calcium sensitivity (Zhou et al. 2016), features that likely play a role in the pathogenesis of cardiac failure in our proband. The second instance was found in two Italian siblings with compound heterozygous mutations, c.431delC, p.(Pro144LeufsX2) and c.432delT, p.(Asp145ThrfsX2), in the last exon that both resulted in loss of 20 amino acids at the carboxyl terminus (Weterman et al. 2013). Both the Dutch and Italian infants died between the ages of 1 and 6 mo, consistent with the clinical course of our proband. Given the location of our proband's truncation in the middle of the protein and presumed consequent complete loss of function, it may be that the carboxy-terminal mutations in the Dutch and Italian infants with similar severity also lead to loss of function, especially because western blot and immunohistochemical staining for MYL2 protein revealed low or undetectable levels of protein in the Dutch patients (Weterman et al. 2013).
Careful assessment of molecular consequences, such as predicted effects of the frameshift mutation in the last exon of NEB or differential effects on multiple transcripts, as with the DMD variant that spared the major full-length muscle isoform, are critical for proper variant interpretation. Careful assessment of the clinical phenotype is equally critical when considering potential relationships between pathogenic variants and a patient's medical condition. Although the proband in this study was enrolled on the basis of his hypotonia, weakness, and CFTD in skeletal myofibers, his early-onset fatal cardiomyopathy was a key factor in making a final diagnosis.
In conclusion, this case stresses the importance of multiple methods for variant interpretation and prediction of pathogenicity, including careful phenotyping and correlation with clinical findings, especially when multiple variants are found in genes related to the clinical presentation.
METHODS
Next-Generation Panel Testing
Next-generation sequencing was performed by the Laboratory for Molecular Medicine (LMM) of Partners Healthcare Personalized Medicine using the Agilent SureSelect Design process (http://personalizedmedicine.partners.org/laboratory-for-molecular-medicine/). The gene panel utilized an all exon approach for 43 genes of interest for neuromuscular and cardiac conditions (Supplemental Table S1) by targeting coding exons with bait out to coding sequence (CDS) ±65 bases. The complete coding regions of all genes were sequenced to average depth of 316 reads, with the exception of CFL2, NEB, SEPN1, TNNT1, and TTN, for which a few exons were excluded because of difficulties in capture. The reportable region of interest was CDS ± 15 bases. For density of probes, a 3× tiling strategy was used. For masking and boosting, a moderately stringent option and maximum performance conditions were used respectively. Specifically, for the DMD gene, in addition to covering all CDS exons ± 65, deletion probes were created every 30 kb within the gene region at a 1× tiling. Next-generation sequencing of paired-end reads was performed on an Illumina HiSeq platform.
In Silico Analysis
Variant calls were generated using the Burrows–Wheeler Aligner, followed by the Genomic Analysis Tool Kit (GATK). Candidate variants were assessed by reference to the Human Gene Mutation Database (HGMD http://www.hgmd.cf.ac.uk/ac/index.php), ClinVar (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/clinvar/), and the Genome Aggregation Consortium (gnomAD) database (http://gnomad.broadinstitute.org). Candidate variants that were known single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were required to have a minor allele frequency of <0.0001 to be considered for further analysis. SNPs with a minor allele frequency of >0.0001 were considered to be nonpathogenic. Pathogenicity of variants was predicted by using SIFT (http://sift.jcvi.org), PolyPhen-2 (http://genetics.bwh.harvard.edu/pph2), and CADD (Rentzsch et al. 2019), and final determinations of pathogenicity were made following current American College of Medical Genetics guidelines for the interpretation of sequence variants (Richards et al. 2015).
Sanger Sequencing Confirmation
Selected variants were amplified by PCR using standard PCR primers. Amplicons were run in agarose gel electrophoresis and submitted to the Molecular Genetics Core Facility at Boston Children's Hospital for sequencing using the ABI Prism BigDye Terminator cycle sequencing protocols (Applied Biosystems, PerkinElmer Corp.). Sequence data were generated in an ABI Prism 3130 or 3730 Genetic Analyzer (Applied Biosystems), formatted by ABI Sequencing Analysis software v.5.2 and KB Basecaller, and analyzed using Sequencher v.5.2.3 or earlier versions (Gene Codes Corporation). Sanger sequencing was performed in affected family members and other family members to confirm pathogenic mutations and track co-segregation patterns.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Data Deposition and Access
Variant c.188del p.(Asn63Metfs*7) in MYL2 has been submitted to Leiden Open Variation Database (LOVD) with ID number 00367860. Variant c.25435C>T p.(Gln8479*) in NEB has also been submitted to Leiden Open Variation Database (LOVD) with ID number 00163746. Additional variant calls from analysis of the 43 neuromuscular disease genes in the proband are available from the authors upon reasonable request.
Ethics Statement
The study was approved by the Boston Children's Hospital Institutional Review Board, with full written consent obtained from the parents, providing consent for the proband.
Acknowledgments
The authors would like to thank Ayano Kondo for technical assistance, Dr. Partha Gosh for helpful discussions regarding patient phenotype and involvement of mutations in the presentation, and Dr. Michael Lawlor for referral for subject enrollment. Thanks to staff of the Partner's Healthcare LMM for assistance interpreting results of their Neuromuscular Disease Panel Test.
Author Contributions
M.M. verified variants in the sequencing panel, produced the figures, and drafted the article; W.W. conducted Sanger confirmations; F.A.G. reviewed the clinical details of the patient; H.Z.A.-H. and D.L. referred the patient, provided ATPase histological staining, and reviewed the clinical details of the patient; and A.H.B. conceived the project, led the sequencing effort, interpreted variants, helped draft the manuscript, and edited the manuscript. All authors critically reviewed and approved the manuscript.
Funding
The study was supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Child Health and Human Development grant R01HD075802, NIH National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases grant R01AR044345, and Muscular Dystrophy Association USA grant MDA602235. M.M. received support from the Finnish Cultural Foundation, the Paulo Foundation, Lastentautien tutkimussäätiö, and Orion Research Foundation. Sanger sequencing was performed by the Boston Children's Hospital IDDRC Molecular Genetics Core Laboratory supported by NIH award U54HD090255 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
Competing Interest Statement
The authors have declared no competing interest.
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Data Availability Statement
Variant c.188del p.(Asn63Metfs*7) in MYL2 has been submitted to Leiden Open Variation Database (LOVD) with ID number 00367860. Variant c.25435C>T p.(Gln8479*) in NEB has also been submitted to Leiden Open Variation Database (LOVD) with ID number 00163746. Additional variant calls from analysis of the 43 neuromuscular disease genes in the proband are available from the authors upon reasonable request.

