EVIDENCE FOR AN AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE GENE FOR SUSCEPTIBILITY TO PARALYTIC POLIOMYELITIS
- 1 September 1942
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Heredity
- Vol. 33 (9) , 307-309
- https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.jhered.a105200
Abstract
Twenty-nine cases of paralytic poliomyelitis, involving complete ascertainment in the northwest portion of McDowell County, West Virginia, are presented in family-history form. The genetic interrelationships of these cases suggest the existence of an autosomal recessive gene for susceptibility to paralytic poliomyelitis, showing about 70 per cent penetrance.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: