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If both DMD and BMD are caused by errors in the dystrophin gene, why is one form more severe than the other?

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If both DMD and BMD are caused by errors in the dystrophin gene, why is one form more severe than the other?

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In DMD the common errors either stop the production of protein because of a fault in the beginning part of the code, or the error changes the code so that it no longer makes sense.