Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy The most severe and most well known type of muscle disease is the duchenne dystrophy. This disease strikes children between the age of 2-6. Progressive disease usually confines it's victims to wheelchairs by their teenage years. This disease is a name for several types of inherited muscular diseases that cause the skeletal muscles to slowly waste away. Ironically, it often appears that the muscles are enlarged. But the enlargement is due to …

…thymectomy). There also is some kind of prevention for the disease, prenatal genetic counseling is an important consideration for women whose brothers or maternal uncles were victims of this condition. But in an X-linked recessecive gene abnormality, women are not affected but may pass on the defective gene to their children. If they do pass on this disease generally only thier sons will develop the disease because males have only one X chromosome. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**