Article
Genetic identity of Fukuyama-type congenital muscular dystrophy and Walker-Warburg syndrome.
Annals of neurology - 1 Jan 1995
Toda T, Yoshioka M, Nakahori Y, Kanazawa I, Nakamura Y, Nakagome Y
Abstract excerpt
Both Fukuyama-type congenital muscular dystrophy (FCMD) and Walker-Warburg syndrome (WWS) are unusual genetic syndromes consisting of congenital muscular dystrophy and complex malformations of the brain and eye. It has been intensively discussed whether FCMD and WWS belong to the same disease entity or not. We analyzed a family in which 3 siblings were affected with either FCMD or WWS by using polymorphic...
Topics
- Abnormalities, Multiple
- Brain
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 9
- DNA
- Eye Abnormalities
- Genetic Linkage
- Genetic Markers
- Genotype
- Humans
- Infant
- Male
- Muscular Dystrophies
