Tibial muscular dystrophy: Symptoms, Diagnosis and Treatment
By Dr. Carlos Reed, MD · · Orthopedics
Our Orthopedics team put together this overview of tibial muscular dystrophy for patients and families.
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Topic: tibial muscular dystrophy. A distal myopathy that is characterized by autosomal dominant inheritance of late-onset muscular dystrophy beginning in the anterior compartment of the legs that has_material_basis_in heterozygous mutation in the gene encoding the giant skeletal muscle protein titin (TTN) on chromosome 2q31.
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