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Genetic counselling for index patients and their family members is complicated by variable expressivity, incomplete penetrance, and <jats:italic>de novo<\/jats:italic> occurrence. Mosaicism in asymptomatic parents can obscure inheritance patterns, particularly when low-grade mosaic variants in blood may be missed. In case of <jats:italic>DES<\/jats:italic>, mosaic carriership has not been described before. We describe a case of a 24-year-old female diagnosed with desmin-related myopathy due to a heterozygous pathogenic NM_001927.4 (<jats:italic>DES<\/jats:italic>):c.1216C&amp;gt;T, p.Arg406Trp variant. Cascade testing using targeted Sanger sequencing of her asymptomatic parents suggested the mother is a mosaic carrier of the pathogenic variant, which was confirmed though next-generation sequencing. The proband\u2019s siblings did not carry the <jats:italic>DES<\/jats:italic> c.1216C&amp;gt;T variant. We report the first documented case of mosaic carriership of a pathogenic <jats:italic>DES<\/jats:italic> variant in an asymptomatic individual and subsequent inheritance by the offspring, leading to desmin-related myopathy. 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