Clinical Case Reports (Dec 2020)

Usher syndrome and Nebulin‐associated myopathy in a single patient due to variants in MYO7A and NEB

  • Nuno Maia,
  • Ana Rita Soares,
  • Ana Maria Fortuna,
  • Isabel Marques,
  • Ana Gonçalves,
  • Rosário Santos,
  • Manuel Melo Pires,
  • Arjan P. M. de Brouwer,
  • Paula Jorge

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.3146
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 12
pp. 2476 – 2482

Abstract

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Abstract In a patient with Usher syndrome and atypical muscle complaints, we have identified two separate variants in MYO7A andNEB genes by exome sequencing. The homozygous variants in these two recessive genes could explain the full phenotype of our patient.

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