The central database of patients with DMD/BMD in the Czech Republic is now in operation Online. This database is only available to specialists. The FN Pediatric Neurology Clinic (Teaching Hospital) in Brno is collaborating with Parent Project to create a central database of patients in the Czech Republic with DMB/BMD. They want to determine their phenotype and genotype profile for the purpose of future international and intervention studies and to establish a therapeutic strategy. The substance of this project is to collect all the necessary and maximum information about Czech patients who have this serious hereditary disease. It is very important to define the mutation of the dystrophin gene which is responsible for the onset of this disease and the hereditary factor in families.

The patients will be entered into the database on the basis of an agreement by their legal representative. The obtained information will be used for collaboration with the world's research centers for the future development of gene therapy for this form of myotonic dystrophy. The success of this database will be seen when research centers require patients with a specific type of mutation in the dystrophy gene. In this case the database will hasten the selection of the patients fit for this study.