The A. refers a case of a family living in a little country town of Sardinia: five males among 12 siblings are affected by myopathy (pelvic) while only one female shows a doubtful or very early form of it.
Parents, grand-parents and relatives are free from muscolar diseases, while among relatives there are four cases of psychopathy, one of mental deficiency, one of epilepsy.
The family is described as a case of recessive sex-linked disease with irregular phenomenology in a female.
In the same place lives a sporadic case with negative familiarity, which is not easy to discus because only child of two normal parents: anyway it deservers mention because the patient has the same family-name of two members of the case referred above.