Duchenne muscular dystrophy

a. is an X-linked recessive disorder.
b. affects about one in 3,500 boys.
c. inevitably results in death by age 25.
d. results from an abnormal structural protein in
muscle cells.
e. fits all of these descriptions.


Answer: e

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