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Mutations in CAV3 cause mechanical hyperirritability of skeletal muscle in rippling muscle disease

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Hereditary rippling muscle disease (RMD) is an autosomal dominant human disorder characterized by mechanically triggered contractions of skeletal muscle1,2,3,4. Genome-wide linkage analysis has identified an RMD locus on chromosome 3p25. We found missense mutations in positional candidate CAV3 (encoding caveolin 3; ref. 5) in all five families analyzed. Mutations in CAV3 have also been described in limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 1C (LGMD1C; refs. 6,7), demonstrating the allelism of dystrophic and non-dystrophic muscle diseases.

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Figure 1: Expression of caveodin 3 and nNOS, and NO stimulation assay.

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Betz, R., Schoser, B., Kasper, D. et al. Mutations in CAV3 cause mechanical hyperirritability of skeletal muscle in rippling muscle disease. Nat Genet 28, 218–219 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/90050

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