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LMNA
Sunday 13 July 2003
Member of the lamins ptotein family.
Pathology
germline LMNA mutations in:
- some Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy (MIM.181350)
- some limb-girdle muscular dystrophy 1B (LGMD1B) (MIM.159001)
- some forms of autosomal recessive axonal Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease 2B1 (CMT2B1) (MIM.605588)
- mandibuloacral dysplasia (MAD) (MIM.248370) (12075506)
- dilated cardiomyopathy with cardiac conduction system defect (CMD1A) (MIM.115200)
- partial lipodystrophy type 2 (Dunnigan-type familial partial lipodystrophy) (FPLD) (MIM.151660)
- Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome or progeria (HGPS) (MIM.176670)
- LDHCP syndrome (MIM.608056)
- progeroid syndrome or atypical Werner syndrome (MIM.277700)
- early-onset myopathy and progeroid features (MIM.176670)
LMNA variant in obesity-related traits
References
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Mounkes LC, Stewart CL. Aging and nuclear organization: lamins and progeria. Curr Opin Cell Biol. 2004 Jun;16(3):322-7. PMID: 15145358
Novelli G, D’Apice MR. The strange case of the "lumper" lamin A/C gene and human premature ageing. Trends Mol Med. 2003 Sep;9(9):370-5. PMID: 13129702
Worman HJ, Courvalin JC. The nuclear lamina and inherited disease. Trends Cell Biol. 2002 Dec ;12(12):591-8. PMID : 12495848