children s health issues
Congenital Myopathies
Centronuclear myopathy
Centronuclear myopathies are inherited in various ways. The forms that are inherited via a gene carried on the X chromosome (see X-Linked Inheritance ) are the most common and most severe, and most affected children do not survive beyond the first year of life. Symptoms of the Dominant disorders forms typically appear in adolescence or adulthood. People who have one of these forms have muscle pain caused by exercise, facial weakness, droopy eyelids, and weakness of the eye muscles. 