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Early onset myopathies are a clinically and histologically heterogeneous monogenic diseases linked to approximately 90 genes. Molecular diagnosis is challenging, especially in patients with a mild phenotype. We describe a 26-year-old man with neonatal hypotonia, motor delay and seizures during infancy, and non-progressive, mild muscular weakness in adulthood. Serum Creatine kinase level was normal. Whole-body muscle MRI showed thin muscles, and brain MRI was unremarkable. A deltoid muscle biopsy showed glycogen storage. WGS revealed a de novo 1.4 Mb-deletion of chromosome 14, confirmed by Array-CGH. This microdeletion causes the loss of ten genes including RALGAPA1, encoding for RalA, a regulator of glucose transporter 4 (GLUT4) expression at the membrane of myofibers. GLUT4 was overexpressed in patient's muscle. Here we highlight the importance to search for chromosomal alterations in the diagnostic workup of early onset myopathies.
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