title: Autosomal recessive oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy.
abstract: Oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy is known as a rare automsomal dominant disease. A family is reported suggesting that there may be genetic heterogeneity in oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy and that in some families the mode of inheritance may be autosomal recessive.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001763:Blepharoptosis / Q000235:genetics; D005260:Female; D005808:Genes, Recessive; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009136:Muscular Dystrophies / Q000235:genetics*; D009801:Oculomotor Muscles; D010614:Pharynx