Some health problems are passed down through families. There are different ways this can happen. To have a child born with what’s called an “autosomal recessive disease” like sickle cell disease or ...

A large consanguineous family with four individuals displaying five incisors in the anterior mandible is described. This family condition led us to propose a hypothesis of an autosomal recessive ...

Amyoplasia has been previously described as a sporadic congenital form of skeletal muscle dysplasia resulting in arthrogryposis. We presently follow two families in which amyoplasia is not sporadic ...