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Published on: December 22, 2023
Novel SPEG variants in a neonate with severe dilated cardiomyopathy and relatively mild hypotonia
Hana Milena Fujimoto1, Masanori Fujimoto2, Takahiro Sugiura1
1Department of Pediatrics, Toyohashi Municipal Hospital, Toyohashi, Aichi, Japan.
Abstract:
Striated muscle preferentially expressed protein kinase (SPEG) variants have been reported to cause centronuclear myopathy associated with cardiac diseases. The severity of skeletal muscle symptoms and cardiac symptoms are presumably related to the location of the variant. Here, we report novel SPEG compound heterozygous pathological variants in a neonate with severe dilated cardiomyopathy and relatively mild hypotonia. This report expands the genotype-phenotype correlations of patients with SPEG variants.
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