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3.   Why is carrier status for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) usually not transmitted from affected fathers...

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3.   Why is carrier status for Duchenne musculardystrophy (DMD) usually not transmitted from affected fathers todaughters, even though this disorder has an X-linked transmissionpattern
4.   Why is there such a high rate of spontaneousmutation among
the genes responsible for classic hemophilia, Duchenne musculardystrophy, and achondroplasia?

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3 DMD is inherited in an Xlinked pattern because the gene that can carry a DMDcausing mutation is on the X chromosome Every boy inherits an X chromosome from his mother and a Y chromosome from his father which is what makes him male Girls get two X chromosomes one from each parent Each son born to a woman with a dystrophin mutation on one of her two X    See Answer
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