From: Harvey Newstrom (mail@HarveyNewstrom.com)
Date: Sat Jun 21 2003 - 18:45:19 MDT
Phil Osborn wrote,
> Altho, I wonder if it's true. Is one of the X's turned
> off in women? I had read, long ago, that one of the
> reasons for the instability of males, in many, many
> respects, as well as the shape of various bell curves,
> was that bad genes on X are always expressed in men,
> having only the one copy, while women were able to mask
> a bad gene on the spare X.
You are correct. A good example would be male-pattern-baldness. This gene
is on the X. Men either have it or they don't. Women only have the
symptoms if they get the gene on both X's. One gene on one X won't cause it
for women.
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