Werdnig-Hoffmann: Dominant Inheritance

Abstract

A family in which both Werdnig-Hoffmann disease and chronic distal spinal muscular atrophy occurred, with apparent autosomal dominant inheritance, is reported from the Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, FL and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.

Keywords

• werdnig-hoffmann disease
• autosomal dominant inheritance
• neonatal adrenoleukodystrophy