Genetic counseling is advised when there is a family history of muscular dystrophy. Women may have no symptoms but still carry the gene for the disorder. Duchenne muscular dystrophy can be detected with about 95% accuracy by genetic studies performed during pregnancy.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/001190.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscular_dystrophy
Muscular dystrophy is a type of genetic disorder. The disorder weakens the muscles until they can no longer move. People with this disorder do not produce a protein needed for healthy muscles.
Muscular dystrophy can appear in infancy up to middle age or later, and its form and severity are determined in part by the age at which it occurs. Some types of muscular dystrophy affect only males; some people with MD enjoy a normal life span with mild symptoms that progress very slowly; others experience swift and severe muscle weakness and wasting, dying in their late teens to early 20s.
Mixed Muscular Dystrophy is a rapid progression form of Muscular Dystrophy. This normally occurs to people between the ages of 30 and 50 and death normally occurs within 5 years.
1 in 3500 males
1 in every 3,500 to 5,000 people in the u.s. get diagnosed
Darius Weems
MD is a genetic disorder that destroys muscles that help the body move.
Around 12% of males die from Duchenne's Muscular Dystrophy
I am not sure exactaly but i hear 1 out of 2 boys are diagnost
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It effects only males. Women are carriers
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