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Becker muscular dystrophy (also known as Benign pseudohypertrophic muscular dystrophy) is an X-linked recessive inherited disorder characterized by slowly progressive muscle weakness of the legs and pelvis.It is a type of dystrophinopathy which includes a spectrum of muscle diseases in which there is insufficient dystrophin produced in the muscle cells resulting in instability in the structure of muscle cell membrane.

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