Nemaline myopathy: a report of two siblings as evidence of autosomal recessive inheritance of the infantile type.

نویسندگان

  • J D Cartwright
  • D J Castle
  • M G Duffield
  • I Reef
چکیده

We report two opposite-sex siblings with the severe infantile form of nemaline myopathy; diagnoses were made on muscle biopsy. Neither parent showed clinical or electromyographic evidence of myopathy, and both had negative muscle biopsies. Autosomal recessive inheritance seems likely.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Postgraduate medical journal

دوره 66 781  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1990