CP and Duchenne muscular dystrophy: To determine whether the CP transcriptome was unique or simply a secondary adaptation of decreased activity in these children (as might be observed with immobilization (IMB)), or whether the response was a generic muscle pathology (Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) being the most-commonly studied), or was similar to spastic muscle in an alternative more developed muscle (Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia (HSP) being a spastic condition with adult subjects) we compared our GeneChip data to these three muscle pathologies for which GeneChip data were available [27-29].