"Fukuyama congenital muscular dystrophy (FCMD): predominantly reported in Japanese populations 2"
"In patients with type II lissencephaly, alpha-dystroglycan, a highly glycosylated, extracellular peripheral-membrane protein crucial for the formation and stabilisation of the glia limitans, is abnormally glycosylated and results in gaps within the glia limitans, allowing the passage of neurones through the glia limitans and into the subarachnoid space 1,3,4."
"There are numerous other features, seen with variable frequency in the three underlying syndromes. These are discussed in more detail in the respective articles Walker-Warburg syndrome, Fukuyama syndrome and muscle-eye-brain (MEB) disease. In general, additional features encountered include 5:"