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rippling muscle disease
Epidemiology:
- rare
Pathology:
- mechanically triggered contractions of skeletal muscle
- mechanical stimulation leads to electrically silent muscle contractions that spread to neighboring fibers that cause visible ripples to move over the muscle
Genetics:
- associated with defects in caveoalin-3 (CAV3)
General
muscular disease; myopathy
Database Correlations
OMIM 606072
References
OMIM :accession 606072