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{SPEAKER name="Melville H. Manson"}
It is carried by the mother and is a, so-called, sex-linked recessive characteristic. Another form is the juvenile form, which usually occurs about puberty. This also has an inheritance factor of the direct type. The third form of muscular dystrophy is the, so-called, Facioscapulohumeral type, so termed because it involves primarily and initially the muscles of the shoulder girdle and the muscles of the face. Then there are, of course, mixed types which can occur spontaneously and may not necessarily have any hereditary factor.

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{SPEAKER name="Watson Davis"}
Well then, due to the fact that it does have a hereditary factor in some of its forms, obviously a good deal of care should be exercised in those who have had it in having children. Isn't that, do you go into that sort of thing?

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{SPEAKER name="Melville H. Manson"}
Well if the hereditary factors are understood by parents who have muscular dystrophy in the family, I think that's a consideration that should be paid attention to.

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{SPEAKER name="Watson Davis"}
Now, you're a scientific director of the Muscular Dystrophy Associations of America. How long has there been this kind of a concerted attack on this particular kind of disease?

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{SPEAKER name="Melville H. Manson"}
Well MDAA is one of the more youthful health agencies. It was founded in 1950. Doctor Ade. T. Milhorat, who was the chairman of our medical advisory board, was engaged in some research on muscular dystrophy, and as a, with a private grant, and when some of his patients and parents of patients learned about this and that this grant was to come to a termination, they decided to found an organization to raise money for research which is and will continue to be our primary objective.