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J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 1971 February; 34(1): 93–97.
PMCID: PMC493693
Familial muscular dystrophy of late onset
Paul A. Bacon and Barbara Smith
St. Bartholomew's Hospital and Medical College, London
Abstract
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.
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