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Absence of the carboxy terminus of dystrophin is associated with severe phenotypes in most muscular dystrophy patients.
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Claims must be made within two years of the child's birth, or four in the case of muscular dystrophy .
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He has raised money for muscular dystrophy charities.
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In 1847 he described two boys with what was obviously pseudo-hypertrophic muscular dystrophy , described twenty-one years later by Guillaume Duchenne.
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In only a few cases, such as muscular dystrophy and cystic fibrosis, has the gene and its protein been identified.
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In the early 1980s, her son Peter died at 15 of muscular dystrophy .
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Sufian had one client with muscular dystrophy who needed to take every Wednesday off work, so he could rest his muscles.
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The researchers hope that their results will allow them to initiate studies in humans with limb-girdle muscular dystrophy .