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Why do females with turner syndrome have a similar incidence of color blindness as males?
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∙ 14y ago
Turner Syndrome is a condition where one of the sex chromosomes (X or Y) is missing.
In girls this means that they only have one copy of the X chromosome, the same as men have. Color blindness is a recessive condition coded for by the X chromosome. This means that men only need one copy of the 'color blindness' mutation (as they have one X and one Y chromosome) where as girls would require two (a unmutated form of the gene on either X chromosome would mean that it was not expressed due to its recessive nature)
In turners there is only one X chromosome for girls, this means that they only require one copy of the mutated gene to express the condition, the same criteria as men
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