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Myasthenia Gravis and other Myasthenic syndromes

Inheritance patterns and prenatal diagnosis

Inheritance patterns
There is a very weak familial susceptibility to MG and to other autoimmune diseases in the families of patients with MG of the LEMS. CM can be autosomal dominant, autosomal recessive or sporadic.

Prenatal diagnosis
This is not applicable to MGand the LEMS. It is now possible in some CM families, but only when the exact fault is known.

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Medical text written November 1991 by Contact a Family. Approved November 1991 by Professor M Patton, Professor of Medical Genetics, St Georges Hospital Medical School, London, UK and Dr J E Wraith, Consultant Paediatrician, Royal Manchester Children's Hospital, Manchester, UK. Last updated December 2003 by Professor J Newsom-Davis, Department of Clinical Neurology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

 

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