CLEVELAND, Ohio — Stand-up comedian and actor Gilbert Gottfried, who died this week at 67, lived for years with the rare genetic muscle disorder myotonic dystrophy type 2, a common form of ...

Gilbert Gottfried, the beloved brash comedian, died Tuesday from a disease that his publicist identified as a rare genetic muscle disorder. Gottfried, 67, had type II myotonic dystrophy, a kind of ...

The new study by an interdisciplinary team of biomedical scientists, published on April 21 in Nature Neuroscience, used myotonic dystrophy as a tool or model to learn more about autism ...

The myotonic dystrophy protein kinase (DMPK) gene is one of many responsible for proper muscle development and function. Research has shown that mutations in this gene correlate with autism.

A global clinical-stage specialty biopharmaceutical company has announced positive topline results from its study of its investigational therapeutic AM0-02 to treat children and adolescents with ...

Myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) is a form of muscular dystrophy and a genetic neuromuscular disease affecting at least 1 in 8,000 people worldwide or approximately 45,000 people in the United States.

NEW BRIGHTON, MINN. — Twenty-year-old Giacomo Naylor, 16-year-old Lukas Naylor, 13-year-old Isadora Naylor and Gianna Naylor were all born with myotonic dystrophy — a genetic disorder that ...