Muscular Dystrophy 2
Title: Muscular Dystrophy 2
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Muscular Dystrophy 2
Category: /Science & Technology
Details: Words: 2179 | Pages: 8 (approximately 235 words/page)
What is Muscular Dystrophy?
The muscular dystrophies are a heterogeneous group of genetic musclular diseases, which have three features in common: they are hereditary, they are progressive (ie get worse over time) and each produces a characteristic selective pattern of weakness of muscle groups. (Engel 1994)
There are a number of such diseases:
Duchenne muscle dystrophy (DMD)
Becker type
Emery-Dreifuss type
Facioscapulohumeral type
Limb-girdle muscular dystrophies
Congenital muscular dystrophies
Severe childhood autosomal recessive muscular dystrophy (SCARMD)
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