Muscular dystrophy and related conditions cause muscles to waste and weaken. More than 70,000 people in the UK are affected
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“I do really love living my life to the full"

We've brought our boy up to believe he's just like anyone else - he just happens to be in a wheelchair. It doesn't stop the blind panic I feel inside when I think about the future though. We just have to hope and pray for treatments and cures.

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Bringing treatments into clinical practice

Since the beginning of the 1990s when DNA technology made a huge leap forward with the introduction of new techniques, more than 100 genes have been found that can cause muscular dystrophy or a related neuromuscular condition.

Abbi is one in a million

Gary and Sarah Bennett, whose daughter, Abbi, has Ullrich congenital muscular dystrophy, started a fundraising committee which they called Abbi's campaign - one in a million.