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Our study aimed to summarize the clinical and genetic features of <jats:italic>POMT2<\/jats:italic>-related \u03b1-DGP in a cohort of patients in China.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>Pedigrees, clinical data, and laboratory tests of patients diagnosed with <jats:italic>POMT2<\/jats:italic>-related \u03b1-DGP were analyzed retrospectively. The pathogenicity of variants in <jats:italic>POMT2<\/jats:italic> were predicted by bioinformatics software. The variants with uncertain significance were verified by further analysis.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>The 11 patients, comprising eight males and three females, were from nine non-consanguineous families. They exhibited different degrees of muscle weakness, ambulation, and intellectual impairment. Among them, three had a muscle-eye-brain disease (MEB)-like phenotype, five presented congenital muscular dystrophy with intellectual disability (CMD-ID), and three presented limb-girdle muscular dystrophy (LGMD). Overall, nine novel variants of <jats:italic>POMT2<\/jats:italic>, including two non-sense, one frameshift and six missense variants, were identified. The pathogenicity of two missense variants, c.1891G &amp;gt; C and c.874G &amp;gt; C, was uncertain based on bioinformatics software prediction. <jats:italic>In vitro<\/jats:italic> minigene analysis showed that c.1891G &amp;gt; C affects the splicing of <jats:italic>POMT2<\/jats:italic>. Immunofluorescence staining with the IIH6C4 antibody of muscle biopsy from the patient carrying the c.874G &amp;gt; C variant showed an apparent lack of expression.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>This study summarizes the clinical and genetic characteristics of a cohort of <jats:italic>POMT2<\/jats:italic>-related \u03b1-DGP patients in China for the first time, expanding the mutational spectrum of the disease. 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