Journal
NEUROMUSCULAR DISORDERS
Volume 20, Issue 6, Pages 397-402Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.nmd.2010.04.004
Keywords
Neutral lipidstorage and myopathy (NLSDM); Triglyceride lipase; HyperCKemia; PNPLA2; Retrotransposal insertion
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- Muscular Dystrophy Association
- VA Merit Review
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An 18-year-old girl referred to a rheumatologist with malar flush and Gottran papules was found to have a markedly elevated serum CM. She was a good student and an avid ballet dancer. A muscle biopsy showed massive triglyceride storage, which was also found in peripheral blood granulocytes (Jordan anomaly) and cultured skin fibroblasts. Assessment using computerized dynamometry and cycle ergometry showed normal strength and muscle energetics, but proton spectroscopy revealed severe triglyceride accumulation in both skeletal and cardiac muscle. Sequencing of PNPLAZ the gene responsible for neutral lipid storage disease with myopathy (NLSDM), revealed a retrotransposal insertion of about 1.8 kb in exon 3 that abrogates transcription of PNPLA2. The sequences of CGI-58, the gene responsible for Chanarin-Dorfman syndrome (CDS), another multisystem triglyceride storage disease, and of two genes encoding lipid droplets-associated proteins, perilipin A and adipophilin, were normal. This case shows that NLSDM can be a transposon-associated disease and that massive lipid storage in muscle can present as asymptomatic hyperCKemia. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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