Acronym of FSHD

( Facio Scapulo Humeral muscular Dystrophy ) Dystrophy muscle , or FSHD, a genetic disease that has been for autosomal dominant from one generation to another is transmitted, and the frequency is 1 in 20,000 people. In this disease, the first your face muscles, shoulders and the upper part of the hand gets caught and followed it, muscle weakness, the pelvis – abdomen and lower part of the foot can occur and many patients suffering from hearing loss, too. In most cases, the disease at the age of 20 or more it starts and in 20% of cases the patient at the age of 50 with the wheelchair move . Studies of the continuity gene disease in the family, the patient indicated that the position of the gene, the disease FSHD in place, 4q35, is it close to the end of the long arm of chromosome 4 is located . Because the disease FSHD in some of the families of patients with FSHD with the position of 4q35 continuity does not indicate why it is likely that the disease from the perspective of a genetically extremely heterogeneous.

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