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The carrier frequency of mothers of Duchenne muscular dystrophy patients based on the type of mutation. The carrier frequency was 53.5% in the mothers of patients with deletion mutations, which was lower than that with duplication mutations (66.7%) and small mutations (67.9%), although the difference was not statistically significant using the χ2-test.
