Phenotype - Genotype Correlation in a Sample of Egyptian Patients With Congenital Myopathies and Congenital Muscular Dystrophies

The aim of this study is to correlate the phenotype and genotype among a sample of Egyptian patients with Congenital myopathies and Congenital muscular dystrophies.

Congenital Muscular dystrophies (CMDs) and Congenital Myopathies (CMs) constitute the two most important groups of congenital muscle diseases with early onset whether at birth or early infancy. CMDs and CMs as a group encompass great clinical and genetic heterogeneity so that achieving an accurate genetic diagnosis has become increasingly challenging, even in the era of next generation sequencing. However, it has become clear that there is overlap between CMDs and CMs on the clinical, pathological and genetic level.