The History of a Genetic Disease: Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy or Meryon's Disease

by Alan E.H. Emery and Marcia L.H. Emery

Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy is a disease that only affects males, with an incidence of around 1 in 3500 new-born baby boys. Its relentless progress is charterized by loss of the ability to walk by around the age of 10 or 11, leading to a wheelchair life, and dealth from cardiac and respiratory
problems usually around the late teens or early twenties.

Edward Meryon was the first person to give a full and detailed clinical description of what...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199591474
• ISBN13: 9780199591473
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"