3. Dominant Inherited Disorder
Muscular dystrophy that is a dominantly inherited disorder means that a mutated gene from a single parent can be inherited and cause you to be affected. This means that if you have a child with a partner who is not affected, there is still a fifty percent chance that your child may develop the condition.
There are several types of muscular dystrophy that are inherited in this way. Some of these include facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy, oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy, myotonic dystrophy, as well as some kinds of limb-girdle MD. All of these are fairly common types of muscular dystrophy and are more easily inherited as only one parent has to carry the deformed gene in order for their children to develop this disorder.
It can be passed down through the generations. However, since only one parent is a carrier, in this case, there is also a higher chance that the gene will not be passed to the children.