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What are the different types of Muscular Dystrophy?

Type of muscular dystrophy Severity of condition
Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy severe
Becker Muscular Dystrophy mild
Rarer types of muscular dystrophy Severity of condition
Limb girdle muscular dystrophy Many different types of varying severity:

Adult onset LGMD types 1A,1D, 1E, 1F

Childhood onset LGMD types 1B, 1C, 2A, 2B, 2C, 2D, 2E,2F, 2G,2H,2I, 2J

Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy infantile onset – severe

childhood onset – moderate or severe

adult onset - mild

Emery-Dreifuss Muscular Dystrophy infantile onset –severe

childhood onset – moderate or severe

adult onset – affects heart

Congenital Muscular dystrophy (CMD) with protein laminin-A2 (LAMA2) deficiency – the condition is also known as MDC1A, classic CMD or merosin deficient CMD Usually severe, rarely mild
Ullrich Congenital Dystrophy severe
Walker-Warburg Syndrome severe