Muscular atrophy

... Mitochondrial Disease * Mucolipidoses * Mucopolysaccharide Disorders * Muscular Dystrophy * Neonatal Onset Multisystem Inflammatory Disease * Neural ... * Neurofibromatosis * Niemann-Pick Disease * Noonan Syndrome * Optic Atrophy * Osteogenesis Imperfecta * Peutz-Jeghers Syndrome * Phenylketonuria ...

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... body will be effected. like example. my lit. brother has SMA (spinal muscular atrophy) and the mutation is located in chrom. 5 somewhere. 2nd question: never heard of it ...

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Amongst other things, they are probably talking about muscular atrophy, which is wasting away of musclular tissue. Muscular tissue is largely composed of protein.

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Lack of exercise also causes muscular atrophy. "Use it or lose it"

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