title: Autosomal recessive distal myopathy.
abstract: Five patients with an autosomally recessively transmitted distal myopathy were investigated. Of these, three belonged to a single sibship. Studies included electromyography, histological examination of muscle tissue, histochemical, electron microscopical, and biochemical analyses. One of the cases resembled the Nonaka form while the others were regarded as expressions of the commoner variety of recessive distal dystrophy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiology, Witwatersrand University Medical School, Johannesburg, South Africa.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Isaacs
authors.forename: M E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Badenhorst
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Whistler
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004576:Electromyography; D005260:Female; D005808:Genes, Recessive; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008854:Microscopy, Electron; D008875:Middle Aged; D008931:Mitochondria, Muscle / Q000648:ultrastructure; D009132:Muscles / Q000201:enzymology / Q000648:ultrastructure; D009136:Muscular Dystrophies / Q000235:genetics* / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology; D009431:Neural Conduction; D013497:Sural Nerve / Q000648:ultrastructure