Blindness

Genes for color blindness and hemophilia are linked on the X-chromosome in humans with a recombination frequency of 30%. A woman whose father was a color blind hemophiliac and mother was normal with no history of color blindness and ...

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... ~1/2 of her cells in retina would have a recessive allele and the other half would have the dominant allele?Or 1/2 is not enough to cause color blindness?And I'd like to know if it's true with other X linked diseases.

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... distinctly realize similar to researchers in the field of genetics an outstanding role of surgeons in reproduction of cardio-defects, a harelip, blindness, absence in the newborn organism from intestines of the external aperture and so it is infinite. In the field of experimental oncology it ...

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... in the cave environment (Culver 1982; Poulson 1963;Poulson and White 1969). As implied in the Darwin quote, however, the actual benefits of blindness have been difficult to understand. This hypothesis is the one favoured by Jeffrery along with others, and is a Darwinian explanation. Jeffery ...

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Thank you. http://insideofiran.org/en/component/content/article/60-scientific/960-iranian-researcher-discovers-congenital-blindness-gene.html Thanks & Regards, Prashant S Akerkar

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