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2. Myasthenia gravis - Wikipedia

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   Myasthenia gravis affects 50 to 200 people per million. [3] [4] It is newly diagnosed in 3 to 30 people per million each year. [13] Diagnosis has become more common due to increased awareness. [13] Myasthenia gravis most commonly occurs in women under the age of 40 and in men over the age of 60. [1] [5] [14] It is uncommon in children. [1]

3. Myasthenia gravis is one of the rarest and most concerning ...

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   Myasthenia gravis, or MG, is a chronic autoimmune neuromuscular disorder that causes muscle weakness and fatigue. ... Still, it's thought that "genetic predisposition and environmental factors may ...

4. Oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy - Wikipedia

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   The genetic blood testing is more common. Additionally, a distinction between OPMD and myasthenia gravis or mitochondrial myopathy must be made, in regards to the differential diagnosis of this condition. [2]

5. Neuromuscular junction disease - Wikipedia

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   Transient neonatal myasthenia gravis is a very rare condition in which a mother with myasthenia gravis passes down her myasthenia gravis-inducing antibodies to her fetus through the placenta, causing the fetus to be born with antibodies that attach to self-antigens at the neuromuscular junction.(reference 12) Most cases of transient neonatal ...

6. What to know about nervous system disease 'ataxia' - AOL

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   But ataxia can also be its own condition or disease. ... degenerative brain conditions and a large number of genetic diseases." ... Myasthenia gravis is one of the rarest and most concerning ...

7. Epigenetics of autoimmune disorders - Wikipedia

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   Myasthenia gravis is an autoimmune disease that causes weakness and dysfunction of the patient's skeletal muscles as a result of extensive neurological damage that destroys the communication between the nerves and the muscles. It has been found that individuals who have Myasthenia Gravis possess high levels of the acetylcholine receptor ...