Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy

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After transcribing and translating the sequence I found out that the protein from my DNA sequence is Dystrophin. Dystrophin is known as the DMD gene or Duchene Muscular Dystrophy. (“DMD”, 2015)This gene is one of the largest known human genes in the body. Dystrophin is used for movement such as your muscles and your heart. Dystrophin also plays a role in cell signaling. This sends and receives protein chemical signals. (“DMD”, 2015) Dystrophin is not only important for the structure, but the…

1. Description of the chosen disability. Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a progressive genetic condition that causes skeletal and heart muscles to breakdown leading to difficulties in mobility and walking (Muscular Dystrophy Australia [MDA], 2015, para. 1). DMD predominantly affects males with approximately “…one in 3500 live male births throughout the world” (MDA, 2015, para. 1). According to Emery, Muntoni, and Quinlivan (2015, p. 31) the most common concerns from parents with children…

Muscular dystrophies (MD) are diseases that causes muscle mass loss and weakness (this is normally in children but can happen in adults). This is caused by abnormalities in genes that interfere with proper production of protein to form healthy muscles for voluntary movement. When the brain sends signals to a muscle to contract, it goes through the spinal cord and peripheral nerves to the neuromuscular junction, releasing the chemical acetylcholine that triggers muscle contraction. From here,…

Every year, thousands of people, mostly young children, are affected by the neuromuscular disease Muscular Dystrophy. There are many different types of Muscular Dystrophy and they differ based on which muscles are affected and what the causative protein in the body is. Muscular Dystrophy was first introduced to us in 1830 by Sir Charles Bell, who wrote of an illness that caused a great amount of weakness in young boys. Years later, a French neurologist by the name of Guillaume Duchenne…

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…

The protein that was concluded was dystrophin. The disease that is associated with this protein is Duchenne. Duchenne is referred to as DMD and is associated with muscular dystrophy. DMD is one of the most common gene malfunctions and is causes by having a problem with a gene which makes up the dystrophin protein. Gupta (2014) explained that when the protein is functioning properly, muscle cells are able to keep their shape and strength, but without it they can begin to break down and become…

Muscular Dystrophy is a disease when your muscles progressively weaken and degenerate over time. This is because abnormal genes or mutations interfere with the body’s ability to form healthy muscle tissue. There are many different types of Muscular Dystrophy. The word muscular dystrophy can be broken down into “trophe” meaning nourishment and “dys” meaning abnormal or abnormal nourishment. The first people to come in contact with Muscular dystrophy, in 1836, were Conte and Gioja. In 1852, it…

Introduction My task was replicating the experiences a seventeen-year-old male with Becker Muscular Dystrophy (BMD) could encounter. As a part of the experience, the task requires me to consider that BDM is an ailment that the principal effects are characterized by progressive muscle weakness and wasting much like Duchenne (Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, 2016). BMD is brought on by a X-linked mutations of the dystrophin gene (Mah et al., 2014). The mutation causes…