| A rare progressive muscular dystrophy characterized by an adult-onset scapulo-axio-peroneal myopathy. Clinical presentation includes shoulder girdle atrophy, scapular winging, axial muscular atrophy of postural muscles combined with a generalized hypertrophy. Typically neck rigidity, rigid spine, Achilles tendon shortening and respiratory insufficiency later in disease course are present. The phenotype is caused by mutation in the FHL1 gene. |
