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Congenital Muscular Dystrophy

Inheritance patterns and prenatal diagnosis

Inheritance patterns
Autosomal recessive in most instances; rare de-novo dominant mutations have been reported in Ullrich Congenital Muscular Dystrophy

Prenatal diagnosis
At present this is possible in approximately forty per cent of cases.

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Medical text written May 2000 by Professor F Muntoni. Last updated December 2004 by Professor F Muntoni, Professor and Consultant in Paediatric Neurology, Hammersmith Hospital, Neuromuscular Centre, London, UK.

 

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