ABSTRACT

FSHD Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy: Clinical Medicine and Molecular Cell Biology, edited by Meena Upadhyaya and David N.Cooper. © 2004 Garland/BIOS Scientific Publishers Limited, Abingdon.

20.1 Introduction

Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy, a genetic disorder with extremely variable clinical severity and age at onset, is classified as an autosomal dominant condition which by definition should affect equally both sexes.