Pseudohypertrophic Muscular Dystrophy Is a Human Disorder That Causes Gradual

question 31

Multiple Choice

Pseudohypertrophic muscular dystrophy is a human disorder that causes gradual deterioration of the muscles. Only boys are affected, and they are always born to phenotypically normal parents. Due to the severity of the disease, the boys die in their teens. Is this disorder likely to be caused by a dominant or recessive allele? Is the inheritance of this trait sex-linked or autosomal?

• A) dominant, sex-linked
• B) recessive, autosomal
• C) recessive, sex-linked
• D) incomplete dominant, sex-linked

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