Podiatry and Medical - Set 2

Category - Podiatry Part II

Duchenne’s muscular dystrophy is an example of what kind of disorder?
  1. Autosomal recessive inheritance
  2. X-linked recessive inheritance
  3. Semidominant inheritance
  4. Autosomal dominant inheritance
Explanation
Answer − B − Duchenne’s muscular dystrophy is an example of X-linked recessive inheritance. The patient’s mother carries one copy of the recessive gene and, therefore, the disease is only found in males.
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