Medical Dictionary
Main Entry:
Beck·er muscular dystrophy Pronunciation:
'bek-&r- Variant:
or Beck·er's muscular dystrophy /-&rz-/ Function:
noun : a less severe form of Duchenne muscular dystrophy with later onset and slower progression of the disease that is inherited as an X-linked recessive trait and is characterizedby dystrophin of deficient or abnormal molecular weight
Becker, P. E., 20th-century German human geneticist. Becker spent the earlier part of his career as a lecturer at the psychiatric andneurological clinic at the University of Freiberg. He went on to hold the post of Professor of Human Genetics at the University of Göttingen. He wrote numerous books and articles on humangenetics, especially concerning hereditary myopathies and in particular myotonia. He was the first to recognize a benign X-linked recessive form of muscular dystrophy, publishing his first report in1955.
