Nature Communications (Feb 2019)

Recessive mutations in muscle-specific isoforms of FXR1 cause congenital multi-minicore myopathy

  • María Cristina Estañ,
  • Elisa Fernández-Núñez,
  • Maha S. Zaki,
  • María Isabel Esteban,
  • Sandra Donkervoort,
  • Cynthia Hawkins,
  • José A. Caparros-Martin,
  • Dimah Saade,
  • Ying Hu,
  • Véronique Bolduc,
  • Katherine Ru-Yui Chao,
  • Julián Nevado,
  • Ana Lamuedra,
  • Raquel Largo,
  • Gabriel Herrero-Beaumont,
  • Javier Regadera,
  • Concepción Hernandez-Chico,
  • Eduardo F. Tizzano,
  • Victor Martinez-Glez,
  • Jaime J. Carvajal,
  • Ruiting Zong,
  • David L. Nelson,
  • Ghada A. Otaify,
  • Samia Temtamy,
  • Mona Aglan,
  • Mahmoud Issa,
  • Carsten G. Bönnemann,
  • Pablo Lapunzina,
  • Grace Yoon,
  • Victor L. Ruiz-Perez

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08548-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 19

Abstract

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FXR1P is a RNA binding protein involved in muscle development. Here, the authors show that mutations in FXR1 exon 15, which is alternatively spliced in muscle, cause multi-minicore myopathy in humans and in mouse models.