Congenital lethal myopathy, Compton-North type
Congenital lethal myopathy Compton-North type is a rare genetic lethal non-dystrophic congenital myopathy disorder characterized antenatally by fetal akinesia intrauterine growth restriction and polyhydramnios and following birth by severe neonatal hypotonia severe generalized skeletal bulbar and respiratory muscle weakness multiple flexion contractures and normal creatine kinase serum levels. Ultrastructurally loss of integrin alpha7 beta2-syntrophin and alpha-dystrobrevin from the muscle sarcolemma and disruption of sarcomeres with disorganization of the Z band are observed.
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Advocacy Organizations
Association Aux Pas du Coeur
Our organization wants to raise awareness and recognize rare diseases in Côte d'Ivoire. Our mission is to: Raising awareness and campaigning to help with the diagnosis and free therapeutic care of patients. Request and/or contribute to actions relating to the training of the medical profession so that doctors are able to make a final diagnosis and ensure the continuous follow-up of patients. Create a patient registry to establish very precise statistics of rare diseases in Côte d'Ivoire. Create a close-knit patient community. Break the isolation and despair of sick people and their families. Open up to the world and actively contribute to international research aimed at treatments.
COMBINEDBrain Inc
COMBINEDBrain is a consortium for outcome measures and biomarkers for neurodevelopmental disorders. We are collaborating to cure rare, non-verbal brain disorders.
Moonshots for Unicorns
Curing single-gene disorders
Neuromuscular Disease Foundation
The Neuromuscular Disease Foundation's (NDF) mission is to enhance the quality of the lives of people living with GNE Myopathy (also known as HIBM) through advocacy, education, outreach, and funding clinical research focused on treatments and a cure.
Project CASK
To fund research for treatment and/or a cure for CASK Gene Disorder
Syndromes Without A Name (SWAN) Australia
Provide information, support and advocacy to families caring for a child with an undiagnosed or rare genetic condition.
Team Titin
Team Titin, Inc.'s mission is to serve those living with, caring for, or researching titin (TTN) related muscle and heart disorders.
ZC4H2 Research Foundation
Our Mission: The purpose of the ZC4H2 Research Foundation is to support the development of viable therapies and standards of clinical care for the treatment of ZC4H2 Associated Rare Disorders (ZARD), and to be an information and support network for the ZARD community. We advocate through research, awareness, and support. For more information, please visit https://www.zc4h2foundation.org.
Clinical Trials
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