"Muscular Dystrophies" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A heterogeneous group of inherited MYOPATHIES, characterized by wasting and weakness of the SKELETAL MUSCLE. They are categorized by the sites of MUSCLE WEAKNESS; AGE OF ONSET; and INHERITANCE PATTERNS.
| Descriptor ID |
D009136
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C05.651.534.500 C10.668.491.175.500 C16.320.577
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| Concept/Terms |
Muscular Dystrophies- Muscular Dystrophies
- Myodystrophica
- Myodystrophicas
- Myodystrophy
- Myodystrophies
- Muscular Dystrophy
- Dystrophies, Muscular
- Dystrophy, Muscular
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Muscular Dystrophies" by people in Profiles.
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Self-reported depression and physical activity in adults with mobility impairments. Arch Phys Med Rehabil. 2013 Apr; 94(4):731-6.
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Body mass index and waist circumference in persons aging with muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis, post-polio syndrome, and spinal cord injury. Disabil Health J. 2012 Jul; 5(3):177-84.
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Mapping the facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy gene is complicated by chromsome 4q35 recombination events. Nat Genet. 1993 Jun; 4(2):165-9.
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Linkage analyses of five chromosome 4 markers localizes the facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) gene to distal 4q35. Am J Hum Genet. 1992 Aug; 51(2):416-23.
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A clinically homogeneous group of families with facioscapulohumeral (Landouzy-Déjérine) muscular dystrophy: linkage analysis of six autosomes. Am J Hum Genet. 1990 Sep; 47(3):376-88.