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Becker muscular dystrophy
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Genetic muscle disorder
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Becker muscular dystrophy (BMD) is an X-linked recessive inherited disorder characterized by slowly progressing muscle weakness of the legs and pelvis. It is a type of dystrophinopathy. The cause is mutations and deletions in any of the 79 exons encoding the large dystrophin protein, essential for maintaining the muscle fiber's cell membrane...

Instance of
Rare disease
class of disease
Subclass of
Muscular dystrophy
Disease
Different from
Duchenne muscular dystrophy
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