LAMA2 and muscular dystrophy: Here we present a patient diagnosed postmortem as having early-onset LAMA2-related muscular dystrophy as a result of mutations in LAMA2,  identified by Sanger sequencing in his parents: a novel nonsense mutation c.4452T>A in exon 31, identified in the mother, and a known pathogenic nonsense mutation c.2901C>A in exon 21, detected in the father.