Desmin-Related Cardiomyopathy
- Age-Related Macular Degeneration
- Alzheimer’s Disease
- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
- Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Chronic Mental Diseases
- Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy
- Conjunctival Amyloidosis
- Corticobasal Degeneration
- Creutzfeldt–Jakob Disease
- Dementia With Lewy Bodies
- Dentatombral-Pallidoluysian Atrophy
- Desmin-Related Cardiomyopathy
- Dialysis-Related Amyloidosis
- Familial Alzheimer’s Disease
- Familial Amyloidotic Cardiomyopathy
- Familial Amyloidotic Polyneuropathy
- Familial Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
- Familial British Dementia
- Familial Danish Dementia
- Familial Fatal Insomnia
- Familial Mediterranean Fever
- Familial Oculoleptomeningel Amyloidosis
- Familial Parkinson’s Disease
- Finnish Hereditary Systemic Amyloidosis
- Frontotemporal Dementia
- Gerstmann–Sträussler–Scheinker Syndrome
- HIV Infection
- Hereditary Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy
- Hereditary Non-Neuropathic Systemic Amyloidosis
- Hereditary Renal Amyloidosis
- Huntington’s Disease
- Inclusion Body Myositis
- Insulin-Related Amyloidosis
- Isolated Atrial Amyloidosis
- Medullary Carcinoma Of The Thyroid
- Multiple Systems Atrophy
- Parkinson’s Disease
- Pick’s Disease
- Preeclampsia
- Primary Amyloidosis
- Progressive Supranuclear Palsy
- Prostatic Amyloidosis
- Pure Autonomic Failure
- Senile Systemic Amyloidosis
- Spinal And Bulbar Muscular Atrophy
- Spinal Cord Injury And Traumatic Brain Injury
- Spinocerebellar Ataxia Types 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, And 17
- Systemic (Reactive) Aa Amyloidosis
- Type-2 Diabetes Mellitus
Desmin-Related Cardiomyopathy (DRM) is a neuromuscular disorder mainly associated with mutations in the desmin gene (DES). Desmin is a protein that is critical for cytoskeletal organization and maintaining cardiomyocyte structure. DRM is characterized by cytoplasmic aggregates of misfolded protein in inclusion bodies that reside in the perinuclear region of cardiomyocytes.