Despite studying the boy since an early age and writing a paper on him there's no mention as to what his condition might be.

I inferred from the article that rather than being a known disease like Muscular Dystrophy or MC this might just be a unique mutation at a genetic level that results in this boy being physically very strong, as some people tend to be without ever having a recognised condition or disease.

However, they study might provide some possible genetic treatment for adverse muscle conditions in the future - now that's a hope worth having!

They said it's a mutation in the DNA that signals muscle development (it tells stem cells to turn into muscle). I did find an article which I'll paste in below where researchers checked children with MC to find out if they had a higher level of mystatin expression, but it was normal. Our hypertropy is just from plain old isometrics.

Jan

J Child Neurol. 2007 Jan;22(1):38-40.

Muscle myostatin expression in children with muscle diseases.

Castro-Gago M, Gómez-Lado C, Eiris-Puñal J, Carneiro I, Arce VM, Devesa J.

Departamento de Pediatría, Servicio de Neuropediatría, Hospital Clinico Universitario, Santiago de Compostela, Spain. pdcastro@usc.es

The demonstration that myostatin may negatively regulate muscle mass in adult individuals has raised the possibility of targeting the myostatin pathway to increase muscle growth in a variety of muscle-degenerative and -wasting conditions. To gain further insight into the possible role of myostatin in primary muscle diseases, the authors investigated the expression of muscle myostatin in children with congenital fiber type 1 disproportion, in others with neurogenic muscular atrophy, in others with myotonia congenita, in others with infantile glycogenosis type II, in others with Prader-Willi syndrome, and in 4 age-matched controls. No differences in the pattern of myostatin expression were found in any case, even in those patients with prominent muscular atrophy or hypertrophy. These findings suggest that muscle alterations that can be observed in primary muscle diseases do not depend on changes in myostatin expression.

Thanks for all your responses. I thought the segment was interesting and was wondering.