Muscular dystrophy in Saskatchewan Hutterites.
A slowly progressive form of muscular dystrophy was studied in a Dariusleut Hutterite kindred from a colony in west-central Saskatchewan. The disorder combines some characteristics of the dominantly inherited facio-scapulo-humeral and the recessively inherited limb-girdle types of muscular dystrophy. Intellect, vision, hearing, and sensations were normally preserved. Nerve conduction was also intact. The disorder reported herein resembles a type of muscular dystrophy we previously described in the Manitoba Schmiedeleut Hutterites [Shokeir and Kobrinsky, 1976]. This condition, which affects both sexes, appears to be genetic in origin and recessively inherited.
D003241:Consanguinity; D003402:Creatine Kinase / Q000097:blood; D004576:Electromyography; D005006:Ethnicity; D005828:Genetics, Population; D006801:Humans; D009136:Muscular Dystrophies / Q000235:genetics* / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology; D009431:Neural Conduction; D010375:Pedigree; D010641:Phenotype; D012067:Religion; D012525:Saskatchewan
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