Mutations in the DMD gene, which creates dystrophin, causes Muscular dystrophy. Dystrophin is located in the skeletal and and cardiac muscles. Alterations or mutations in the gene make it so little to know dystrophin are produced, causing Muscular Dystrophy. Without enough dystrophin muscles contract and get damaged. (2015)
The mutated gene can be inherited in an X-linked pattern. This means it is passed along the X chromosome. If a mother has a faulty DMD gene, her son has a fifty percent chance of inheriting muscular dystrophy. Boys also can randomly develop muscular dystrophy. Sometimes, in the family's past only females are carriers of it so no one is the family know it’s there until a son inherits it. Sometimes, when inherited in the past
The mutated gene can be inherited in an X-linked pattern. This means it is passed along the X chromosome. If a mother has a faulty DMD gene, her son has a fifty percent chance of inheriting muscular dystrophy. Boys also can randomly develop muscular dystrophy. Sometimes, in the family's past only females are carriers of it so no one is the family know it’s there until a son inherits it. Sometimes, when inherited in the past