DMD and muscular dystrophy: Muscular dystrophies in people are currently classified as the Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophies associated with mutations in the DMD gene, the limb–girdle muscular dystrophies with either autosomal dominant or autosomal recessive modes of inheritance and associated with mutations in the sarcoglycans and other genes, the congenital muscular dystrophies associated with mutations in collagen 6, laminin α2 and others, Emery–Dreifuss muscular dystrophy, and facioscapulohumeral, myotonic and oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophies [5].