Abstract
Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, DMD, is a genetically transmitted disease, passed from a mother to her children. Affected female offspring usually suffer no apparent symptoms and may unknowingly carry the disease. Male offspring with the disease die at a young age. Not all cases of the disease come from an affected mother. A fraction, perhaps one third, of the cases arise spontaneously, to be genetically-transmitted by an affected female. This is the most widely held view at present. The incidence of DMD is about 1 in 10,000 male births. The population risk that a woman is a DMD carrier is about 1 in 3,300.
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Andrews, D.F., Herzberg, A.M. (1985). Procedures for the Detection of Muscular Dystrophy Carriers. In: Data. Springer Series in Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5098-2_39
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