Muscular Dystrophy Muscular dystrophy is a term for a group of diseases involving muscle deterioration. At least one form of the disease, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, appears to be related to deletions in a huge gene coding for the

2. Disposition to muscular dystrophy , sickle-cell anemia , Tay-Sachs disease, certain cancers and numerous other diseases also have locatable genetic origins. More knowledge is yet to come. When it comes, it may be accompanied by an