Abstract
We report the cases of two sisters of a Scottish family who developed polymyalgia rheumatica at the age of 14 and 72 years respectively. Previous reports of familial polymyalgia rheumatica and giant-cell arteritis have been infrequent, and the patients were of other racial groups. The relevance of these observations with regard to the genetic factor in the causation of polymyalgia rheumatica is discussed.
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