Muscular dystrophy in Saskatchewan Hutterites

Am J Med Genet. 1985 Nov;22(3):487-93. doi: 10.1002/ajmg.1320220306.

Abstract

A slowly progressive form of muscular dystrophy was studied in a Dariusleut Hutterite kindred from a colony in west-central Saskatchewan. The disorder combines some characteristics of the dominantly inherited facio-scapulo-humeral and the recessively inherited limb-girdle types of muscular dystrophy. Intellect, vision, hearing, and sensations were normally preserved. Nerve conduction was also intact. The disorder reported herein resembles a type of muscular dystrophy we previously described in the Manitoba Schmiedeleut Hutterites [Shokeir and Kobrinsky, 1976]. This condition, which affects both sexes, appears to be genetic in origin and recessively inherited.

MeSH terms

  • Consanguinity
  • Creatine Kinase / blood
  • Electromyography
  • Ethnicity
  • Genetics, Population*
  • Humans
  • Muscular Dystrophies / genetics*
  • Muscular Dystrophies / pathology
  • Muscular Dystrophies / physiopathology
  • Neural Conduction
  • Pedigree
  • Phenotype
  • Religion
  • Saskatchewan

Substances

  • Creatine Kinase