TY - JOUR T1 - Benign muscular dystrophy: risk calculation in families with consanguinity. JF - Journal of Medical Genetics JO - J Med Genet SP - 299 LP - 304 DO - 10.1136/jmg.26.5.299 VL - 26 IS - 5 AU - G Wolff AU - C R Müller AU - T Grimm Y1 - 1989/05/01 UR - http://jmg.bmj.com/content/26/5/299.abstract N2 - This report concerns two families in which the index patients are sporadic cases of a benign form of muscular dystrophy. In both families the sisters of the patients have married a close relative. The respective risks for a child of these consanguineous marriages being affected with either X linked Becker muscular dystrophy or autosomal recessive limb girdle muscular dystrophy is calculated using pedigree information, results of serum creatine kinase determinations, and also, in one family, results of DNA typing using RFLPs from the short arm of the X chromosome. ER -