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Adult onset metabolic/mitochondrial myopathies and dystrophies

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Duchenne / Becker muscular dystrophy<br />

DMD/BMD the most common form of LGMD<br />

X-Linked, 1/3000 live male births<br />

Mutations in dystrophin gene<br />

1/3 sporadic<br />

Manifesting female carriers<br />

Muscle, brain, skin<br />

each male with limb girdle weakness should first be<br />

tested for a dystrophinopathy

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