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. 2020 Dec 1;39(4):245–265. doi: 10.36185/2532-1900-028

Table I.

List of distal myopathies and causative genes.

Clinical entity Gene(s) Trasmission References
Adult – late onset distal myopathies
Welander distal myopathy TIA1 AD Hackman et al., 2012
Digenic SQSTM1 and TIA1 mediated distal myopathy SQSTM1+TIA1 DG Lee et al., 2018
Tibial muscular dystrophy (Udd myopathy) TTN AD Hackman et al., 2002
Vocal cord and pharyngeal distal myopathy MATR3 AD Senderek et al., 2009
Distal Actininopathy ACTN2 AD Savarese et al., 2019
Distal Myopathy with sarcoplasmic bodies MB AD Olive et al., 2019
Oculopharyngeal distal myopathy NOTCH2NLC, LRP12 and GIPC1 AD Deng et al., 2020; Ishiura et al., 2019; Saito et al., 2020; Sone et al., 2019
PLIN4 mutated distal myopathy PLIN4 AD Ruggieri et al. 2020
VCP distal myopathy VCP AD Palmio et al 2011
Myofibrillar distal myopathies
Distal myopathy with myotilin defect MYOT AD Penisson-Besnier et al., 2006
Late onset distal myopathy
(Markesbery-Griggs, Zaspopathy)
LDB3 AD Griggs et al., 2007
Desminopathy DES AD > AR Sjoberg et al., 1999
Alpha-B crystallin-mutated distal myopathy CRYAB AD Reichlich et al. 2010
Early adult onset distal myopathies
Miyoshi myopathy DYSF AR Liu et al., 1998
Recessive distal titinopathy TTN AR Evila et al., 2017
Distal myopathy with rimmed vacuoles
(Nonaka and GNE myopathy)
GNE AR Kayashima et al., 2002
Distal ABD-filaminopathy FLNC AD Duff et al., 2011
DNAJB6 distal myopathy DNAJB6 AD Ruggieri et al., 2015 - Palmio et al., 2020
Rimmed vacuolar neuromyopathy HSPB8 AD Ghaoui et al., 2016
ANO5 distal muscular dystrophy ANO5 AR Bolduc et al., 2010
RYR1 mutated calf predominant distal myopathy RYR1 AD/AR Laughlin et al., 2017 - Jokela et al., 2019
Early-childhood onset distal myopathies
Early onset distal myopathy (Laing) MYH7 AD > AR Meredith et al., 2004
Early onset distal myopathies with nebulin defect NEB AR > AD Wallgren-Pettersson et al., 2007, Kiiski et al., 2019
Early onset ADSSL distal myopathy ADSSL AR Park et al., 2016
Early onset distal myopathy with KLHL9 mutations KLHL9 AD Cirak et al., 2010
Other myopathies and dystrophies with distal weakness
Distal myopathy with caveolin defect CAV3 AD Tateyama et al., 2002
DNM2 related distal myopathy DNM2 AD Bitoun et al., 2005

AD: autosomal dominant; AR: autosome recessive; DG: digenic