title: Girls with muscular dystrophy.
abstract: Clinical and genetic studies were made on progressive muscular dystrophy in eight young girls. No chromosomal abnormality was observed in these patients and their mothers. The pedigrees of six cases suggested an autosomal recessive inheritance and clinical features were identical with those of Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Two other cases were compatible with childhood muscular dystrophy with autosomal recessive inheritance.
mesh_terms: D003241:Consanguinity; D005260:Female; D005808:Genes, Recessive; D006801:Humans; D009136:Muscular Dystrophies / Q000235:genetics*; D010375:Pedigree