Investigating Genetic Causes of Mendelian Congenital Myopathies

This thesis investigates the genetic aetiology of congenital myopathy in families with an unresolved genetic diagnosis. In two families, massively parallel sequencing and functional analyses identified two genetic candidates: a regulatory variant (c.*152G>T) and multi-exon deletion in a known dis...

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Main Author: Dofash, Lein
Format: Thesis
Published: Curtin University 2022
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/88348
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description This thesis investigates the genetic aetiology of congenital myopathy in families with an unresolved genetic diagnosis. In two families, massively parallel sequencing and functional analyses identified two genetic candidates: a regulatory variant (c.*152G>T) and multi-exon deletion in a known disease gene (KLHL40), and a homozygous missense variant (c.1339T>C) in HMGCS1, a novel disease gene. This work supports the further investigation of regulatory variants for congenital myopathy screening and highlights the mevalonate pathway in muscle function.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-883482022-04-29T04:17:48Z Investigating Genetic Causes of Mendelian Congenital Myopathies Dofash, Lein This thesis investigates the genetic aetiology of congenital myopathy in families with an unresolved genetic diagnosis. In two families, massively parallel sequencing and functional analyses identified two genetic candidates: a regulatory variant (c.*152G>T) and multi-exon deletion in a known disease gene (KLHL40), and a homozygous missense variant (c.1339T>C) in HMGCS1, a novel disease gene. This work supports the further investigation of regulatory variants for congenital myopathy screening and highlights the mevalonate pathway in muscle function. 2022 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/88348 Curtin University fulltext
spellingShingle Dofash, Lein
Investigating Genetic Causes of Mendelian Congenital Myopathies
title Investigating Genetic Causes of Mendelian Congenital Myopathies
title_full Investigating Genetic Causes of Mendelian Congenital Myopathies
title_fullStr Investigating Genetic Causes of Mendelian Congenital Myopathies
title_full_unstemmed Investigating Genetic Causes of Mendelian Congenital Myopathies
title_short Investigating Genetic Causes of Mendelian Congenital Myopathies
title_sort investigating genetic causes of mendelian congenital myopathies
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/88348