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dystrophy, dystrophia 1. any of various bodily disorders, characterized by wasting of tissues 2. Ecology a condition of lake water when it is too acidic and poor in oxygen to support life, resulting from excessive humus content dystrophy [′dis·trə·fē] (medicine) Defective nutrition. Defective or abnormal development or degeneration. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) is caused by an expansion of a CTG trinucleotide repeat in a gene for an enzyme (the DMPK gene that encodes the enzyme dystrophia myotonica protein kinase, a serine/threonine kinase). Myotonic muscular dystrophy (also known as myotonic dystrophy, dystrophia myotonica or Steinert's disease, and abbreviated MMD, MyD, or DM) is the most common type of adult muscular dystrophy, which affects 1 in 8000 individuals (approximately 40,000 people in the United States). |
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