Joining Jack 👉🏻👈🏻

promoting and funding research into the study and cure of duchenne muscular dystrophy joining jack is a charity based in wigan which was started in 2012 by the parents of a three year-old-boy called jack johnson after he was diagnosed with duchenne muscular dystrophy duchenne muscular dystrophy is one of the most common fatal genetic disorders to affect children around the world. approximately one in every 3,500 boys worldwide is afflicted with duchenne muscular dystrophy with 20,000 new cases reported each year in the developed world. it is a devastating and currently incurable muscle-wasting disease, associated with specific inborn errors in the gene that codes for dystrophin, a protein that plays a key structural role in muscle fibre function. symptoms usually appear in male children before the age of five. progressive muscle weakness of the legs and pelvis eventually spreads to the arms, neck, and other areas. by age 10, braces may be required for walking, and most patients are