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Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a degenerative disorder associated with progressive muscle weakness. Affected children eventually die from respiratory or cardiac failure and rarely survive to adulthood. It is a genetic disease due to a defect at a single locus on the X-chromosome and is therefore transmitted by female carriers to their sons. The disease is relatively common; one in 4,800 males or a total of approximately 20,000 boys in the United States has DMD (239).
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Blau, H.M., Webster, C., Pavlath, G.K., Chiu, CP. (1985). Evidence for Defective Myoblasts in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. In: Strohman, R.C., Wolf, S. (eds) Gene Expression in Muscle. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 182. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4907-5_7
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