Muscular dystrophy is a group of disorders that involve a progressive loss of muscle mass and consequent loss of strength. In general, the condition is caused by genetic variations that interfere with ...

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health and their colleagues have found that a toxic protein made by the body called DUX4 may be the cause of two very different rare genetic disorders. For ...

Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a genetic condition that causes progressive muscle weakness and wasting. It is an X-linked recessive disorder that occurs due to changes in the DMD gene, which ...

Oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy (OPMD) is a rare inherited disorder that causes weakness in the eye and throat muscles. It may lead to drooping eyelids and swallowing difficulties. Muscular ...

Gottfried’s publicist Glenn Schwartz later said in a statement to People that the comedian died from recurrent ventricular tachycardia due to myotonic dystrophy type II, a heart complication due to a ...

Muscular dystrophy affects approximately 1 in 3,500 male births. Though rare in females, there are documented cases. It is usually diagnosed between 3 and 6 years of age and is degenerative, causing ...

Myotonic muscular dystrophy, which is sometimes called myotonic dystrophy, is a type of muscular dystrophy. There are two types of myotonic muscular dystrophy, described as type 1 (DM 1) and type 2 ...