DMD and you

Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy is one of the twenty known types of Muscular Dystrophy Diseases. Also called DMD, this disease is one of forty neuro-muscular diseases that changes lives daily. This disease is the most common childhood disease out of all of the neuro-muscular diseases, affecting one in every 3,500 boys in the world. The outcome of DMD is usually inevitable, a result of death before the age of 25. However, the receivable information, increasing …

…on the leg of one X-chromosome, the duplicate leg on the other X-chromosome carries back-up genetic information. Because of this extra X, girls do not receive the consequences of DMD. In males, there is no duplicate back-up leg on the Y-chromosome to compensate for the X- chromosome's defect, causing the mutation to slowly disintegrate the muscles of the body. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography** Travis, J., "Antibiotics for Muscular Dystrophy" August 7, 1999. Parent Project. Available Online; www.parentdmd.org