Talk:Duchenne muscular dystrophy

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[edit] Daughter's of men with Duchenne

The statement "Daughters of men with Duchenne also have a 50% chance of being carriers" seems to be completely wrong. Any female MUST get an X from her father, who only has 1 X, and if a man has Duchenne's than his 1 X must be infected. In other words, a daughter of a man with Duchenne, it seems to me, MUST be a carrier. I think that whoever wrote the statement got confused because the diagram shows an unaffected father, hence the chance that his daughter may not be a carrier.

--DreamsReign 22:57, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

Just noting that this has been fixed. --nkayesmith 01:36, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Distal or proximal muscles?

Somebody changed the text Distal muscles to proximal muscles in symptoms section. Wikipedia mentions both on the page that proximal muscles redirects to, and I have it from a reliable source (which I should really put here) that the distal muscles are affected. However, upon reading wikipedia's explanation, I don't think either serve to cover all of the affected areas. Perhaps the somebody who changed this could leave an explanation here. Thanks. nkayesmith 01:58, 18 August 2006 (UTC)