LGMD2F is the fourth sarcoglycanopathy (LGMD2C to LGMD2F) type, characterized when the causative mutation in the δ-SG gene was identified for the first time in Brazilian LGMD patients with a Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) type features linked to chromosome 5q33-34. This evidence concerns the gene DSG1 and autosomal recessive limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 2F.