GFI1 and Miyoshi myopathy: The overall prevalence of the GFI1-36N allele was 7.9% among healthy controls and 10.4% among MM patients indicating an association of the GFI1-36N allele with the risk of developing MM (OR 1.35, 95%CI 1.06-1.72, p-value 0.016; corrected for population stratification; Table 1).