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Table 7 Immunohistochemistry and Western blot secondary antibody deficiency

From: Muscle biopsy essential diagnostic advice for pathologists

Antibody

Primary myopathy

Calpain

Dysferlinopathy or LGMD-R2 dysferlin-related (Anderson et al., 2000)

Fukutin-related proteinopathy or LGMD-R9 FKRP-related (Yamamoto et al., 2008)

Titinopathy or LGMD-R10 titin-related (Pénisson-Besnier et al., 2010; Udd et al., 2005)

Anoctaminopathy or LGMD-R12 anoctamin-related (Penttilä et al., 2012)

Dysferlin

Calpainopathy or LGMD-R1 calpain-related (Anderson et al., 2000, Groen et al., 2007)

Caveolinopathy (Müller et al., 2006, Matsuda et al., 2001)

Dystrophinopathy or Duchenne/ Becker muscular dystrophy (Izumi et al., 2015)

Sarcoglycanopathy or LGMD-R3-R4-R5-R6 or alpha, beta, gamma, delta sarcoglycan-related (Izumi et al., 2015)

Anoctaminopathy or LGMD-R12 anoctamin-related (Izumi et al., 2015)

GNE myopathy or Nonaka distal myopathy (Izumi et al., 2015)

Myotilinopathy (Izumi et al., 2015)

Caveolin

Dysferlinopathy or LGMD-R2 dysferlin-related (Barresi 2011)

  1. Calpain deficiency detectable by Western blot