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Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
About Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
The most common fatal childhood genetic muscle disease, affecting about 1 in 5,000 boys. Progressive weakness usually requires a wheelchair by the teens. Steroids transformed outcomes and gene-targeting drugs arrived from 2016.
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