by University of Portsmouth Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Mutations of the gene encoding dystrophins have long been known to cause the debilitating muscle-wasting disease Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), which affects one in every 5,000 children born, mostly boys. People with the condition will usually only live into their 20s or 30s. Now, a study, led...
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Scientists studying fatal muscle wasting disease make significant discovery
by University of Portsmouth Skeletal muscle fibers. Credit: Berkshire Community College Bioscience Image Library / Public domain Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is caused by a genetic mutation and affects one in every 5,000 boys born. Because the affected gene is on the X chromosome, girls are carriers of the mutant gene but develop the disease...