Muscular Dystrophy Congenital, LMNA-Related

**Semantic type:** Disease or Syndrome

**Definition:** An autosomal recessive muscular dystrophy caused by mutation(s) in the LMNA gene, encoding prelamin-A/C. Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 1B and Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy-2 are allelic disorders with overlapping phenotypes.

**Synonyms:** - MDCL