Molecular characterization of myophosphorylase deficiency (McArdle disease) in 34 patients from Southern France: identification of 10 new mutations. Absence of genotype-phenotype correlation.

We report on 31 patients and 3 affected siblings (17 males and 17 females) from Southern France with McArdle disease (two from Spanish and three from Portuguese background). Molecular analysis revealed the presence of five previously described mutations: the common p.R50X nonsense mutation, the p.