In humans, multiple genes have been implicated in muscular dystrophy; in addition, in most cases, any specific gene is implicated in multiple forms of the disease. This report describes Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy 3 (EDMD3), which is one of several forms of the disease associated with the human gene LMNA; EDMD3 exhibits autosomal recessive inheritance. Information about fly models for this and related diseases can be found in the report 'muscular dystrophy, lamin-related' (FBhh0000196).
A mutation in the fly LamC gene that corresponds to a variant implicated in EDMD3 have been characterized; see the Disease-Implicated Variants' table below.
[updated Oct. 2022 by FlyBase; FBrf0222196]
[EMERY-DREIFUSS MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY 3, AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE; EDMD3](https://omim.org/entry/616516)
[LAMIN A/C; LMNA](https://omim.org/entry/150330)
Moderate-scoring ortholog of human genes LMNA, LMNB2 and LMNB1 (2 Drosophila to 3 human).