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Why don't people with Duchenne's Muscular Dystrophy make dystrophin?

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People with Duchenne’s muscular dystrophy doesn’t make dystrophin due to the mutations in the gene producing dystrophin.

Step-by-step explanation:

Duchenne's muscular dystrophy is an X linked genetic disorder and in people with DMD over there is little production of muscular dystrophy. The chance of males having DMD is more than females having this disorder.

If a boy inherits the affected X chromosome from his mother, then he will be a DMD patient, since males have only one X chromosome.

The protein dystrophin is necessary to help muscles maintain their structure. When the gene responsible for the production of dystrophin is had mutations which cause Duchenne’s muscular dystrophy.

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