Reflections on muscular dystrophy in a Sudanese kindred.
An extended kindred in the Sudan, where a severe muscular dystrophy has been interpreted as of autosomal recessive inheritance, has been further analysed. The within-sibship ratio, the autosomal and X-linked inbreeding coefficients, and the creatine kinase levels suggest a possible alternative interpretation: X-linked muscular dystrophy with failure of clinical expression in some males.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003241:Consanguinity; D003402:Creatine Kinase / Q000235:genetics; D005260:Female; D005808:Genes, Recessive; D008040:Genetic Linkage; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009136:Muscular Dystrophies / Q000201:enzymology / Q000235:genetics*; D010375:Pedigree; D013397:Sudan; D014960:X Chromosome
D003402:Creatine Kinase