p.S143F mutation in lamin A/C: a new phenotype combining myopathy and progeria

Ann Neurol. 2005 Jan;57(1):148-51. doi: 10.1002/ana.20359.

Abstract

We report a young girl with a phenotype combining early-onset myopathy and a progeria. She had myopathy and marked axial weakness during the first year of life; progeroid features, including growth failure, sclerodermatous skin changes, and osteolytic lesions, developed later. We identified the underlying cause to be a hitherto unreported de novo missense mutation in the LMNA gene (S143F) encoding the nuclear envelope proteins lamins A and C. Although LMNA mutations have been known to cause Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome and Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy, this is the first report of a patient combining features of these two phenotypes because of a single mutation in LMNA.

Publication types

  • Comparative Study
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Blotting, Western / methods
  • Child
  • DNA Mutational Analysis / methods
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Lamin Type A / genetics*
  • Lamin Type A / metabolism
  • Muscles / pathology
  • Muscles / physiopathology
  • Muscular Diseases / complications
  • Muscular Diseases / genetics*
  • Muscular Diseases / pathology
  • Mutation, Missense*
  • Phenylalanine / genetics
  • Progeria / complications
  • Progeria / genetics*
  • Progeria / pathology
  • Serine / genetics
  • Staining and Labeling / methods

Substances

  • Lamin Type A
  • lamin C
  • Serine
  • Phenylalanine