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) …showed first 75 words of 2179 total…

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