Jun 18, 2021
Welcome back! In honor of Pride Month, our June series will be focusing on the biological, psychological, and social factors that influence gender. This week we are looking at the complicated science of biological sex.
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Welcome back! In honor of Pride Month, our June series will be focusing on the biological, psychological, and social factors that influence gender. This week we are looking at the complicated science of biological sex.
One of the most common sex-linked disorders is Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), a debilitating muscular disorder linked to the X-chromosome. Sex-linked disorders, like DMD, come from genes in the sex chromosomes (X and Y in humans). Sex chromosomes are responsible for determining an individual’s biological sex, XX for female, XY for male (although there are other less common combinations that come from chromosomal aberrations—we’ll talk about those more in the future).
This week's blog post is part 3 in our series on the genetic basis of disease. This time we're talking about the inheritance of sex-linked disorders like Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. Check it out!