muscular dystrophy

Lymphatic dysfunction is linked to disease pathogenesis in Duchenne muscular dystrophy animal models Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a severe muscle-wasting disorder characterized by progressive muscle weakness and inflammation caused by mutations in the DMD gene. Chronic inflammation in...

I’m posting this new thread as I have been going through the process of diagnosis. My father was diagnosed last year (he’s now in his 80s) as a result of being part of the UK’s 100,000 genome project. He has had problems for many years, but these were initially either put down to ageing, brushed...