Burch (1936), in a comprehensive review, was largely responsible for furthering recognition of the condition in America, and the number of cases that have been reported, mostly in the ophthalmological literature, during the past ten years is an indication that arachnodactyly is not of extreme rarity, and that many milder cases and 'formes frustes ' have previously passed unrecognized. Stewart (...

During later youth, she suffered from psychological problems such as panic attacks and social phobia. After finishing hotel management training, she worked as an educator until she was 25. She stopped working because of psychological and orthopedic problems. In her twenties, she experienced forced sexual contacts with men. However, in her own sexual fantasies she wanted to be a man with a femal...

While historically under-studied in comparison to other family relationships, the fatherdaughter relationship is an important dyad within the family sytem and has been associated with a number of significant psycho-social developmental outcomes for women as they grow from young girls to young adults. Of particular importance is the quality of the emotional connection shared by fathers and daugh...

A Xhosa father and daughter with ankylosing spondylitis are reported. Review of the literature revealed a low incidence of ankylosing spondylitis in Blacks in general, with only isolated reports from the continent of Africa itself. To our knowledge, there has been no documentation of ankylosing spondylitis in a black female, or of ankylosing spondylitis in first-degree Black relatives. The clin...

High density lipoprotein cholesterol data on a population-based random sample of 858 white and 72 black probands and their 3935 white and 205 black relatives were collected from nine North American clinics using a common protocol and standardized methodology. Familial associations were examined within clinics for whites and pooled across clinics for blacks. The influence of covariates and varyi...

The mother and daughter in a family had homozygous cystinuria and were also heterozygous carriers of the oculo-cerebro-renal dystrophy of Lowe. The daughter was also epileptic. The son had Lowe's syndrome and the father an increased urinary excretion of cystine and lysine. This evidence together with other case reports suggests that the defect in cystinuria and that of Lowe's syndrome may be co...