Familial muscular dystrophy of late onset.
Two related cases of a proximal muscular dystrophy are described with the full postmortem findings in one of them. The strong family history is recorded. The condition was clinically predominant in the proximal limb muscles and showed an autosomal dominant type of inheritance with complete penetrance.
D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D001344:Autopsy; D002869:Chromosome Aberrations; D025063:Chromosome Disorders; D005260:Female; D005799:Genes, Dominant; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009132:Muscles / Q000473:pathology; D009136:Muscular Dystrophies / Q000235:genetics* / Q000473:pathology; D009210:Myofibrils; D010375:Pedigree; D013848:Thigh