Problems in ascertainment of transmitting males in Martin-Bell syndrome.

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The difficulty of assigning families affected with the Martin-Bell syndrome (MBS) into the category of male transmission is emphasised and illustrated by examples of 3 MBS families. These examples demonstrate how the ability to detect transmitting males depends on the number of generations available for investigation, and also on the "spread" of clinical investigation across many branches of the family regardless...

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