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Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy is one of the twenty known types of
Muscular Dystrophy Diseases. Also called DMD, this disease is one of forty
neuro-muscular diseases that changes lives daily. This disease is the most
common childhood disease out of all of the neuro-muscular diseases, affecting
one in every 3,500 boys in the world. The outcome of DMD is usually inevitable,
a result of death before the age of 25. However, the receivable information,
increasing …
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…on the leg of one X-chromosome, the duplicate leg
on the other X-chromosome carries back-up genetic information. Because of
this extra X, girls do not receive the consequences of DMD. In males, there is
no duplicate back-up leg on the Y-chromosome to compensate for the X-
chromosome's defect, causing the mutation to slowly disintegrate the muscles of
the body.
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**Bibliography**
Travis, J., "Antibiotics for Muscular Dystrophy" August 7, 1999.
Parent Project. Available Online; www.parentdmd.org
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