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When to See a Specialist About Tibial muscular dystrophy

By Dr. Joseph Barnes, DO · · Orthopedics

This article from Weyland-Yutani Health System's Orthopedics service line explains tibial muscular dystrophy in plain language.

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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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