Essay Archive - Diseases: Sex Linked and Sex Influenced
Diseases: Sex Linked and Sex Influenced
There are thousands of cases of sex linked and sex influenced diseases
worldwide. These diseases can range from a social inconvenience, to a fatal
ailment. In sex linked diseases, like Muscular Dystrophy, hemophilia and color
blindness, only males are affected. When a man infected with a sex linked
disease has children, all his sons are normal, but all of his daughters are
carriers. When a carrier woman and an uninfected man have children, half of the
sons are normal, and half of the sons are affected; half of the daughters are
carriers and half of the daughters are norma....
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