Muscular Dystrophy
Muscular dystrophy (MD) is an inherited disorder that weakens the muscles of the body involved with movement. ... Teens that have muscular dystrophy may have begun having problems as infants, or they may develop problems later on. ... The severity of the symptoms, the age at which the symptoms appear, how fast the symptoms progress and what pattern of inheritance the disorder follows are all factors which differ between the different forms of muscular dystrophy. There are many forms of MD, one of which is Becker Muscular Dystrophy. ... Another form of MD is Limb-Girdle Muscular Dystrophy. ... The last form of MD that will be discussed is Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy. ... There are many other forms of MD some of which are: Distal muscular dystrophy, Emery –Dreifuss muscular dystrophy, Fukuyama congenital muscular dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy, and Ophthalmoplegic muscular dystrophy. ... Here, the genetic material may also be studied in some muscular dystrophies for disease diagnosis and carrier testing.