| Disease ID | Source | Name | Description |
| 158900 | OMIM | Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy 1 (FSHD1) | A degenerative muscle disease characterized by slowly progressive weakness of the muscles of the face, upper-arm, and shoulder girdle. The onset of symptoms usually occurs in the first or second decade of life. Affected individuals usually present with impairment of upper extremity elevation. This tends to be followed by facial weakness, primarily involving the orbicularis oris and orbicularis oculi muscles. The gene represented in this entry may be involved in disease pathogenesis. Overexpression of human FRG1 in mice leads to development of facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD1)-like symptoms such as kyphosis, progressive muscle dystrophy and skeletal muscle atrophy (PubMed:16341202). It also causes aberrant pre-mRNA splicing of TNNT3 and MTMR1, affects the localization and activity of KMT5B, and leads to increased levels of EID3, resulting in inhibited muscle differentiation (PubMed:23720823). These results suggest that FSHD1 results from inappropriate overexpression of FRG1 which leads to abnormal alternative splicing of specific pre-mRNAs. |