Duchenne muscular dystrophy occurs when that gene fails ... These may include: Muscle biopsy. A small piece of muscle tissue is removed and examined to confirm the diagnosis or rule out another ...

What Is Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy? Muscular dystrophies are a ... your child might have other symptoms, including: The muscle problems can cause cramps at times, but in general, DMD isn ...

The prevalence of Duchenne muscular dystrophy is 1 in 35,000 males. [12] The prevalence of pervasive developmental disorder in the male population is 1.6 in 1000, approximately four times more ...

We hypothesize that Duchenne muscular dystrophy and autism spectrum disorder/pervasive developmental disorder co-occur with a greater than random frequency. In this study, we set out to reject the ...

This critical protein maintains muscle structure and function, but its absence or deficiency spells trouble. While some forms of MD, like Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, primarily affect boys due to ...

Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) is a rare progressive disorder. People with DMD are missing muscle-protecting protein. This is due to a fault in the gene producing dystrophin. Muscles to become ...

McGill researchers discovered that K884, an experimental drug, enhances muscle stem cell repair in Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). Unlike gene therapies, K884 targets DMD-affected cells regardless ...

Dyne Therapeutics started the new year with proof-of-concept clinical data for experimental genetic medicines addressing two rare muscle diseases—one of which has no FDA-approved treatments.

Sarepta Therapeutics has decided not to continue the development of vesleteplirsen, a follow-up to its Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD ... the population with the muscle-wasting disease.