Muscular dystrophy in Saskatchewan Hutterites

1 November 1985

journal article
research article
Published by Wiley in American Journal of Medical Genetics

Vol. 22 (3) , 487-493
https://doi.org/10.1002/ajmg.1320220306

Abstract

A slowly progressive form of muscular dystrophy was studied in a Dariusleut Hutterite kindred from a colony in west-central Saskatchewan. The disorder combines some characteristics of the dominantly inherited facio-scapulo-humeral and the recessively inherited limb-girdle types of muscular dystrophy. Intellect, vision, hearing, and sensations were normally preserved. Nerve conduction was also intact. The disorder reported herein resembles a type of muscular dystrophy we previously described in the Manitoba Schmiedeleut Hutterites [Shokeir and Kobrinsky, 1976]. This condition, which affects both sexes, appears to be genetic in origin and recessively inhertited.

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