Mutations in the MYH7 gene cause a spectrum of clinically heterogeneous cardiac myopathies, including hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), dilated cardiomyopathy and left ventricular noncompaction, as well as an array of skeletal myopathies, including Laing distal myopathy, myosin storage myopathy and scapuloperoneal myopathy (Additional file 1: Table S1). This evidence concerns the gene MYH7 and Skeletal myopathy.