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Categories: Muscular dystrophy, X-linked recessive disorders

Becker muscular dystrophy Becker's muscular dystrophy benign pseudohypertrophic muscular dystrophy benign congenital myopathy

A form of muscular dystrophy that sets in in adolescence or adulthood and progresses slowly but will affect all voluntary muscles; characterized by generalized weakness and muscle wasting that affects limb and trunk muscles first; similar to Duchenne's muscular dystrophy but less severe; inheritance is X-linked recessive (carried by females but affecting only males) WordNet 3.0

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Becker muscular dystrophy is an X-linked recessive inherited disorder characterized by slowly progressing muscle weakness of the legs and pelvis. Wikipedia

X-linked recessive inherited disorder characterized by slowly progressive muscle weakness of the legs and pelvis Wikidata

An X-linked recessive inherited disorder characterized by slowly progressive muscle weakness of the legs and pelvis. OmegaWiki

Benign pseudohypertrophic muscular dystrophy: an X-linked recessive inherited dystrophinopathy characterized by slowly progressive muscle weakness of the legs and pelvis. Wiktionary

IS A

muscular dystrophy

rare disease

DIFFERENT FROM

Duchenne's muscular dystrophy

GENETIC ASSOCIATION

dystrophin

HAS CAUSE

mutation

HEALTH SPECIALTY

neurology

MEDICAL EXAMINATIONS