<unk>  <unk>  (also known as muscular dystrophy -<unk>  type) is an eventually fatal disorder that is characterized by rapidly progressive muscle weakness and atrophy of muscle tissue.<unk>  is the most common form of muscular dystrophy. There is no available cure at this time.<unk>  affects young males due to its X-linked recessive inheritance pattern. Onset of symptoms usually occurs before the sixth year of life and begins with loss of endurance and strength in the legs and pelvis, eventually progressing to include the musculature within the entire body. Two-thirds of<unk>  incidences are inherited from the mother, while the remaining one-third are caused by mutations in the genes of the egg or embryo.<unk>  is named after the French neurologist Guillaume Benjamin Amand<unk>  (1806-1875), who first described the disease in the 1860s. It is caused by mutations in the gene which encodes dystrophin, an essential cell membrane protein in muscle cells.
Duchenne muscular dystrophy
Becker's muscular dystrophy
Spinal muscular atrophy
Distal spinal muscular atrophy type 1
Muscular dystrophy
Spinal muscular atrophy other forms
Kennedy disease
Salih myopathy