Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

  • This is a disorder characterised by progressive muscle weakness.
  • Death usually results from weakness of cardiac and respiratory muscles
  • It is caused by a mutation in the dystrophin gene; one of the largest genes in the human DNA
  • Because of the large size of the gene, it has a very high mutation rate and many cases occur de novo without a previous family history of the

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