Abstract
DR. JULIA BELL has contributed a useful monograph on muscular dystrophy in man to “The Treasury of Human Inheritance” series. Clinical and genetical data from more than 1,300 individuals exhibiting this distressing abnormality are analysed in regard to mode of inheritance, prognosis, symptoms, fertility and time of onset. She divides the clinical typos into three groups but points out that inter-grading may occur. Each group on the whole persists in one family and is partly related to one of throe genes which behave as dominant, recessive or sex-linked respectively. Several problems relating to development and transmission of the abnormality are discussed.
On Pseudohypertrophic and Allied Types of Progressive Muscular Dystrophy
By Julia Bell. (Being Part 4 of Vol. 4, “Nervous Diseases and Muscular Dystrophies”, of “The Treasury of Human Inheritance”.) Pp. iv+283–342+plates 33–44. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1943.) 12s. 6d. net.
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SANSOME, F. On Pseudohypertrophic and Allied Types of Progressive Muscular Dystrophy. Nature 152, 260 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/152260d0
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