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Oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy (OPMD) can be autosomal dominant neuromuscular disease or autosomal recessive which appears in early middle age (fifth decade). The most common inheritance of OPMD is autosomal dominant which means only one copy of the mutated gene needs to be present in each cell. Children of an affected parent have a 50% chance of inheriting the mutant gene. Generally autosomal dominant inheritance have a strong family tie.
