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What is the main reason that sex-linked disorder are most often observed in males?
Males are most likely to have the disorder.
What is the main reason sex linked disorders are the most often observed in males?
Males are most likely to have the disorder.
A genetic pedigree showing that only males are affected by a certain disorder is evidence of what type of inheritance?
Sex-linked.
Where can I locate a private treatment center for males that specializes in eating disorders?
Rogers Memorial Hospital is on the cutting edge of eating disorder treatment, especially men with eating disorders. Look into their website here: http://www.rogerseatingdisorders.org/. They employ many of the top doctors and researchers in the eating disorder field.
What percentage of male and female athletes suffer from an eating disorder?
An estimated 1 in every 200 people in the world is suspected to suffer from some form of an eating disorder. Of that, 90% are women and 10% are men.
What percentage of men and women have eating disorders?
Up to 10 million females and 1 million males struggle with eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia. The Binge eating disorder is experienced by millions more.Up to 80 percent of women show signs of an eating disorder at some point.Up to 24 million people in the United States experience some form of an eating disorder.
Why are sex linked disorders seen in mostly males?
Males are most likely to have the disorder.
A recessive gene located on the X chromosome is the cause of muscular dystrophy in affected individuals. Males are more likely to suffer from muscular dystrophy than females because?
males have only one X chromosome, so if they inherit the gene for muscular dystrophy on that X chromosome, they will develop the disorder. Females have two X chromosomes, so they would need to inherit the gene on both chromosomes to be affected, making it less likely for them to show symptoms.
Are there any males with an eating disorder?
many men/boys suffer for eating disorders however, because it was seen as something associated with females not many men spoke out about it. but as in the media a while back the British MP John Prescott suffered from Bulimia. There is a growing number of males with eating disorders coming out.
How many males vs females will develop an eating disorder?
For eating disorders, 1 male with suffer for every 9 females. If there were 100 people with eating disorders, 10 would be men and 90 would be women.
Why are males more likely to get recessive sex linked disorder?
Males are more likely to get recessive sex-linked disorders because they have only one X chromosome, meaning they will display the disorder if that X chromosome carries the recessive gene. Females, on the other hand, have two X chromosomes which can often mask the presence of the disorder if one X chromosome carries a normal allele.
Who is affected by a maternal grandfather who is color blind?
it should be the males mostly because males are more likely to become colorblind than females. colorblind females are very rare.
