History
This year was when the first account of MD was made
What is 1830?
Causes muscular dystrophy by all types
What is a genetic mutation?
This symptom prevents having a correct posture
What is scoliosis?
This light exercise can act as a treatment
What is yoga?
Duchenne and Becker affects this gender more than another.
Who are males?
This year was when an additional report was made on two brothers with MD
What is 1836?
This chromosome is mutated in muscular dystrophy
What is X chromosome?
Symptoms usually occur later in life in this kind of muscular dystrophy
What is Becker?
The body is moved to prevent
What is muscle pain?
This certain race is less affected in Duchenne muscular dystrophy than one race but not another
What is non-Hispanic whites?
This person had a form of muscular dystrophy named after him
Who is Duchenne
This causes a mutation in the muscle proteins
What is a defective gene?
Everyday tasks become more difficult due to
What is muscles weakening?
This is needed if the case of MD is too severe
What is surgery?
About this number in males between ages of 5 and 24 are affected
What is 14 in 100,000?
This person first wrote an essay about an illness that causes progressive weakness in boys.
Who is Sir Charles Bell?
MD can occur when a child receives this from their parent
What is one normal gene and one defective gene?
This symptom can make eating and everyday life difficult
What is difficulty swallowing?
This is the process that can edit the DNA of a sperm cell or an egg cell
What is homologous recombination?
This kind of MD is 3x more prevalent than the other
What is Duchenne MD?
This is the amount of boys reported in Duchenne's account of symptoms regarding MD
What is 13?
This can prevent MD naturally
What is there are no ways of preventing MD naturally?
This symptom makes walking difficult
What is falling frequently?
These help slow the progression of the disease
What is corticosteroids?
The number of male births approximately affected every year in the U.S.
What is 1 in every 3,500 to 6,000?