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  2. Duchenne muscular dystrophy - Wikipedia

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    Duchenne muscular dystrophy is a rare progressive disease that eventually affects all voluntary muscles and involves the heart and breathing muscles in later stages. Life expectancy is estimated to be around 25–26, [18] [59] but this varies. People born with Duchenne muscular dystrophy after 1990 have a median life expectancy of approximately ...

  3. Muscular dystrophy - Wikipedia

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    Many affected people will eventually become unable to walk [2] and Duchenne muscular dystrophy in particular is associated with shortened life expectancy. Muscular dystrophy was first described in the 1830s by Charles Bell. [2] The word "dystrophy" comes from the Greek dys, meaning "no, un-" and troph-meaning "nourish". [2]

  4. Dystrophinopathy - Wikipedia

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    Dystrophinopathy refers to a spectrum of diseases due to mutations in the DMD gene, which encodes for the dystrophin protein found in muscle. [1] [2] [3] The severe end of the spectrum includes Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), Becker muscular dystrophy (BMD), and DMD-associated dilated cardiomyopathy.

  5. Pfizer reports patient death in Duchenne gene therapy study - AOL

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    (Reuters) -A young patient died due to cardiac arrest after receiving Pfizer's experimental gene therapy being tested in a mid-stage trial for a muscle-wasting disorder called Duchenne muscular ...

  6. Becker muscular dystrophy - Wikipedia

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    The gene affected is the DMD gene, is located on the X chromosome and is inherited in an X-linked recessive pattern. [13] Since women have two X chromosomes, if one X chromosome has the non-working gene, the second X chromosome will have a working copy of the gene to compensate, because of this ability to compensate, women rarely develop symptoms.

  7. Dystrophin - Wikipedia

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    Variants in the DMD gene that lead to the production of too little or a defective, internally shortened but partially functional dystrophin protein, result in a display of a much milder dystrophic phenotype in affected patients, resulting in the disease known as Becker's muscular dystrophy (BMD). In some cases, the patient's phenotype is such ...

  8. Muscular Dystrophy Association - Wikipedia

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    Specific examples include Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), a severe form of muscular dystrophy, ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), and Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease (CMT), which impacts peripheral nerves. MDA also addresses numerous rare disorders, such as Andersen–Tawil syndrome, Laing distal myopathy, and Walker–Warburg syndrome ...

  9. This Popular Diet Trend Causes Inflammation And ... - AOL

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    Chloe Tsang, DMD, is a dentist at Tend in New York City. ... but they can also trigger systemic inflammation throughout the body or affect the gut’s microbiome, says Tsang. So, occasional juice ...