Type : Phenotype or locus, molecular basis unknown;
Description : Infantile-onset autophagic vacuolar myopathy is characterized by increased cardiac
and skeletal muscle glycogen with normal acid maltase (GAA; 606800). Skeletal muscle
biopsy shows characteristic intracytoplasmic vacuoles that stain for sarcolemmal proteins
and complement proteins. Similar pathologic findings are seen in Danon disease (300257),
caused by mutation in the LAMP2 gene (309060) on chromosome Xq24, and X-linked myopathy
with excessive autophagy (XMEA; 310440), which has been mapped to Xq28.;