“…Congestive cardiomyopathy per se rarely is familial. The familial forms are associated with various myopathic or neurogenic conditions [Darsee et al, 1979;Chakrabarti and Pearce, 19811. Najjar et a1 [1973, 19841 reported a condition with genital anomaly, mental retardation, and cardiomyopathy in five male children of two sibships.…”