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"Males who inherit the mutation get the disease because they have no second dystrophin gene to make up for the faulty one. Early in the embryonic development of a female, either the X chromosome from the mother (maternal X) or the one from the father (paternal X) is inactivated in each cell."

(courtesy https://www.mda.org)

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