| Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 2K has characteristics of onset of muscle wasting during childhood, associated with intellectual deficit. Moderate muscular hypertrophy and microcephaly are also present. So far, the syndrome has been described in ten boys, the majority of whom came from consanguineous Turkish families. The disease is caused by mutations in the POMT1 gene (chromosome 9) encoding O-mannosyltransferase 1, an enzyme involved in protein glycosylation. |
