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 …showed first 75 words of 220 total…

…showed last 75 words of 220 total…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