rippling muscle disease

Epidemiology

• rare

Pathology

• mechanically triggered contractions of skeletal muscle
• mechanical stimulation leads to electrically silent muscle contractions that spread to neighboring fibers that cause visible ripples to move over the muscle

Genetics

• associated with defects in caveoalin-3 (CAV3)

More general terms

• muscular disease; myopathy

Database

• OMIM: https://mirror.omim.org/entry/606072