This disease information center provides information about six types of inherited myopathy (a myopathy that can be passed from parent to child):

• central core disease/malignant hyperthermia susceptibility
• centronuclear myopathies, including myotubular myopathy
• myotonia congenita (Thomsen disease and Becker type)
• nemaline myopathy (rod body disease)
• paramyotonia congenita (Eulenberg disease)
• periodic paralyses (hyperkalemic, hypokalemic, Andersen-Tawil syndrome)

Here you also can find information on two noninherited myopathies caused by abnormal activity of the thyroid gland:

• hyperthyroid myopathy
• hypothyroid myopathy

For more information, please click on the individual disease name.