“…However, several authors have described familial SMA affecting distant relatives, indicating a hereditary pattern incompatible with simple autosomal recessive inheritance (Brandt 1950, Wohlfart et a]. 1955, Kugelberg & Welander 1956, Becker 1964, Amick et al 1966, Almog & Tal 1968, Zellweger et al 1969, White & Blaw 1971, Zellweger et al 1972, Hausmanowa-Petrusewicz et al 1976, Zeiler et al 1976, Zerres & Grimm 1983. Becker (1964) analysed this mode of inheritance and postulated an allelic model.…”