The autosomal recessive variety of congenital stationary night-blindness with myopia.

Congenital stationary night-blindness associated with myopia may be transmitted by two types of inheritance: X-linked recessive (Worth, 1906; Nettleship, 1909 and 1912; Kleiner, 1923) and autosomal recessive (Nettleship, 1912; Vogt, 1923; Gassler, 1925; Akiya, 1935; Merin et al, 1970). There are only a few reports of either variety. The present paper describes a family where 3 sibs are affected with the autosomal recessive form of congenital night-blindness with myopia. To our knowledge this is the third report of this condition in the English literature.