After teaching a class of nursing students about muscular dystrophy, the instructor determines that the teaching was successful when the students identify which type of muscular dystrophy
as demonstrating an X-linked recessive pattern of inheritance?
A) Limb-girdle
B) Myotonic
C) Distal
D) Duchenne
D
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Duchenne muscular dystrophy follows an X-linked recessive inheritance pattern. Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy is believed to be autosomal or X-linked inherited. Myotonic and distal muscular dystrophy follow an autosomal dominant inheritance pattern.
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