title: A study of a family with inherited disease of cardiac and skeletal muscle. Part III. Genealogical considerations and associations with low intelligence.
abstract: A family with inherited cardiac and skeletal muscle disease was also found to have members with low intelligence. The effects of social and environmental conditions upon the behaviour of family members are described, with particular attention to the sociomedical problems created by the combination of a hereditary disease and low intelligence.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D009202:Cardiomyopathies / Q000235:genetics*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000235:genetics*; D007361:Intelligence Tests; D008297:Male; D009135:Muscular Diseases / Q000235:genetics*; D010375:Pedigree; D012951:Socialization