Several studies [3, 6, 11–14] have described the muscle MRI findings in European and North American patients with LGMD2I harboring the founder mutation c.826C>A in FKRP, which is different from the c.545A>G mutation found in mainland China [15]. Here, FKRP is linked to autosomal recessive limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 2I.