Diseases: Sex Linked And Sex Influenced
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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 li ....
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.... muscle cells that can
not produce a protein called dystrophins (Science News 380). In patients of
hemophilia, there is a deficiency of a protein needed for blood clotting,
causing this hereditary bleeding disorder. In red/green color blindness, the
broadest form of color blindness that affects six percent of the population, the
cones in the retina that receive green light do not function properly. Unlike
sex linked diseases, sex influenced diseases are not reserved solely for the
male. How ....
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