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In one family a fraction of the maternal lymphocytes was found to carry the mutation, suggesting somatic mosaicism. In six cases out of 41, the mutation was transmitted more than once by a parent in whom the mutation was absent in lymphocytes, suggesting gonadal mosaicism as the explanation for the multiple transmission. Using our data for the recurrence of the mutations among the total of at risk haplotypes transmitted, we arrive at a recurrence risk of 14% for the at risk haplotype. The observation of this high risk of germinal mosaicism is crucially important for all physicians counselling females in DMD families. Recently, germinal mosaicism has been observed also in a number of other X linked and autosomal disorders. 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