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Any treatment for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy patients?
No, there is ABSOLUTELY no cure for DMD (Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy) in my knowledge.
Is Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy chromosomal?
Yes!
What is the most common and most severe type of muscular dystrophy in children?
Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
The form of muscular dystrophy in which survival is rarely beyond the late twenties?
Duchenne's muscular dystrophy
What is the missing molecule in Duchenne muscular dystrophy?
Dystrophin.
Which type of muscular dystrophy is X-linked?
Duchenne
What is an important congential muscular disease that results in the degeneration of the skeletal muscles by young adulthood called?
Duchenne muscular dystrophy
What ethnic group is mostly affected by duchenne muscular dystrophy?
yes
Is duchenne muscular syndrome dominant or recessive?
It is a recessive X linked form of muscular dystrophy
Is muscular dystrophy and duchenne muscular dystrophy the same?
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.
Is duchenne muscular dystrophy hereditary?
yes it can be only if you are 18 or older
What type of allele is responsible for causing duchenne muscular dystrophy?
sex linked recessive
