can't figure this out; what is the difference between genetic and sex linked diseases

Do you mean sexually transmitted diseases, or diseases that might have more of an impact on one sex than the other?

 

Genetic diseases may be passed down through the family line; diseases, which, due to certain genes passed on from parent to child, are more likely to be contracted by someone with those genes, or are themselves abnormalities that may be passed on from parent to child.

 

An example of a sex-related disease would be breast cancer, which is much more likely to pop up in a woman.

 

A sex-specific disease would be something like cervical cancer, which a man can't get at all.

 

You can look them all up on wikipedia.org.

I think you mean Mendelian vs. sex linked diseases. And it all has to do with the X chromosome.

A sex-linked disesase is a specific class of genetic diseases. The alleles for sex-linked diseases are located on the X-chromosome so recessive sex-linked diseases (such as hemophilia or color-blindness) occur more commonly in males (who must possess only one copy of the disease allele) than in females (who must possess two copies of the disease allele).

and is it mean that is always the X chromosome that carriers the reccesive gene that responsible for the sex-linked disease ??

i meant gender or X-linked disease

and is it mean that is always the X chromosome that carriers the reccesive gene that responsible for the sex-linked disease ??

 

Well, it's the price you pay for being male. Feminism to the contrary - and I am all for it - men live hard and die young. The fact that you don't have two Xs just adds to that.

Well, it's the price you pay for being male. Feminism to the contrary - and I am all for it - men live hard and die young. The fact that you don't have two Xs just adds to that.

 

That's generalizing a bit, don't you think?

That's generalizing a bit, don't you think?

 

Um, yes. The life expectancy for males is seven years younger than women in the US. But that's what statistics are for: generalization.