Trials for slowly progressive neurogenetic diseases need surrogate endpoints

MM Reilly, DN Herrmann, D Pareyson… - Annals of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Heritable neurological disorders provide insights into disease mechanisms that permit
development of novel therapeutic approaches including antisense oligonucleotides, RNA …

Cardiac Phenotypes in Hereditary Muscle Disorders: JACC State-of-the-Art Review

E Arbustini, A Di Toro, L Giuliani, V Favalli… - Journal of the American …, 2018 - jacc.org
Hereditary muscular diseases commonly involve the heart. Cardiac manifestations
encompass a spectrum of phenotypes, including both cardiomyopathies and rhythm …

229th ENMC international workshop: Limb girdle muscular dystrophies–Nomenclature and reformed classification Naarden, the Netherlands, 17–19 March 2017

V Straub, A Murphy, B Udd, A Corrado, S Aymé… - Neuromuscular …, 2018 - Elsevier
Historically, the classification and nomenclature of diseases has not been systematic and
diseases were either classified by cause, presenting symptoms and signs, pathological …

The unified myofibrillar matrix for force generation in muscle

TB Willingham, Y Kim, E Lindberg, CKE Bleck… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Human movement occurs through contraction of the basic unit of the muscle cell, the
sarcomere. Sarcomeres have long been considered to be arranged end-to-end in series …

Anti-HMGCR myopathy may resemble limb-girdle muscular dystrophy

P Mohassel, O Landon-Cardinal, AR Foley… - Neurology …, 2018 - AAN Enterprises
Objective To determine the prevalence and clinical features of anti-HMGCR myopathy
among patients with presumed limb-girdle muscular dystrophy (LGMD) in whom genetic …

Untangling the complexity of limb‐girdle muscular dystrophies

T Liewluck, M Milone - Muscle & nerve, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The limb‐girdle muscular dystrophies (LGMDs) are a group of genetically heterogeneous,
autosomal inherited muscular dystrophies with a childhood to adult onset, manifesting with …

Interpreting genetic variants in titin in patients with muscle disorders

M Savarese, L Maggi, A Vihola, PH Jonson… - JAMA …, 2018 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Mutations in the titin gene (TTN) cause a wide spectrum of genetic diseases. The
interpretation of the numerous rare variants identified inTTNis a difficult challenge given its …

Prevalence, pathological mechanisms, and genetic basis of limb‐girdle muscular dystrophies: A review

E Taghizadeh, M Rezaee, GE Barreto… - Journal of cellular …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Limb‐girdle muscular dystrophies (LGMDs) are a highly heterogeneous group of
neuromuscular disorders that are associated with weakness and wasting of muscles in legs …

Exploration of new contrasts, targets, and MR imaging and spectroscopy techniques for neuromuscular disease–a workshop report of working group 3 of the …

GJ Strijkers, ECA Araujo, N Azzabou… - Journal of …, 2019 - content.iospress.com
Neuromuscular diseases are characterized by progressive muscle degeneration and
muscle weakness resulting in functional disabilities. While each of these diseases is …

Gene therapy with bidridistrogene xeboparvovec for limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 2E/R4: phase 1/2 trial results

JR Mendell, ER Pozsgai, S Lewis, DA Griffin… - Nature Medicine, 2024 - nature.com
Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy 2E/R4 is caused by mutations in the β-sarcoglycan (SGCB)
gene, leading to SGCB deficiency and consequent muscle loss. We developed a gene …