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Muscular Dystrophy
CDC, 2021

Muscular dystrophies are a group of genetic disorders that result in muscle weakness over time. Each type of muscular dystrophy is different from the others. It is important to get help as early as possible. Muscular dystrophy has no cure, but acting early may help an individual with muscular dystrophy get the services and treatments he or she needs to lead a full life.

Myotonic Dystrophy at a Glance
Myotonic Dystrophy Foundation, September 15,2021

Myotonic dystrophy is a rare, multi-systemic, inherited disease that affects an estimated 1 in 2,100 people, or over 3.6 million individuals across the world. International Myotonic Dystrophy Awareness Day aims to garner the attention of the wider general public, policy makers, regulators, biopharmaceutical representatives, researchers, health care professionals, and anyone with an interest in changing the future of myotonic dystrophy.

Finding a genomic cause: The clinician's role
Genomics Education Program, UK, 2021

It’s vital that you provide as much detailed information about the phenotype as possible – even if you’re not sure whether it’s relevant. Even a small omission of relevant information could alter the filtering process and mean the variant of interest is filtered out during one of the filtering stages outlined above. In addition, the handful of variants left for the clinical scientists to analyze at the end of the machine filtering process may be interpreted differently in light of the phenotypic information provided, so it’s vital that it is detailed and precise.

Health Equity and Genetic Disorders
CDC, August 2021

Public health efforts to achieve health equity need to include people with genetic disorders. Thousands of inherited genetic disorders affect millions of people in the United States. Genetic disorders include both single-gene disorders, such as cystic fibrosis and sickle cell disease, and conditions that make people more likely to develop common chronic diseases, such as hereditary breast and ovarian cancer syndrome, Lynch syndrome, and familial hypercholesterolemia.


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