EMD and Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy: Emery–Dreifuss muscular dystrophy (EDMD) is a rare inherited myopathy characterized by early-onset contractures of major tendons, progressive skeletal muscle wasting, and cardiomyopathy, most often caused by mutations in the nuclear envelope proteins emerin (EMD) or lamin A/C (LMNA) [110].