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Central core disease of muscle

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One of the conditions that produces 'floppy baby' syndrome.

CCD causes hypotonia (floppiness) in the newborn baby, slowly progressive muscle weakness, and muscle cramps after exercise.

Muscle biopsy shows a key diagnostic finding (absent mitochondria in the center of many type I muscle fibers).

CCD is inherited as a dominant trait.

The CCD gene is on chromosome 19 (and involves ryanodine receptor-1).

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