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Duchenne muscular dystrophy is a genetic muscle disorder that causes the loss of muscle function in all muscles throughout the body. Most children are diagnosed in early childhood after living relatively normal lives the first 4-7 years. The progressive disease confine these children to a wheelchair from age 8-12 years, and in their mid-teens most children depend on respiration assistance to live. Without treatment the young men will die in their late teens or early 20s.
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