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Nemaline Myopathy: a Report of Two Siblings As Evidence of Autosomal Recessive Inheritance of the Infantile Type

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Journal Postgrad Med J
Specialty General Medicine
Date 1990 Nov 1
PMID 2267214
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Abstract

We report two opposite-sex siblings with the severe infantile form of nemaline myopathy; diagnoses were made on muscle biopsy. Neither parent showed clinical or electromyographic evidence of myopathy, and both had negative muscle biopsies. Autosomal recessive inheritance seems likely.

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