Summary: Congenital myopathies (CM) is a large group of muscle disorders, presenting with hypotonia and non-progressive generalised muscle weakness, which can lead to motor developmental delay.More than 20 genes can cause CM and currently there is no curative treatment for this disorder.~Case reports and a smaller study have previous reported that oral salbutamol has benefited subjects with different types...

Summary: In the Congenital Myopathy Research Program at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, the researchers are studying the congenital myopathies (neuromuscular diseases present from birth), including central core disease, centronuclear/myotubular myopathy, congenital fiber type disproportion, multiminicore disease, nemaline myopathy, rigid spine muscular dystrophy, SELENON (SEPN1) and ...