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What are some disorders or genetic diseases that only affects female offspring?
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Rarely: These are generally rare but some mitochondrially inherited conditions may appear to preferentially affect females. There are also a few x-linked dominant conditions which are lethal to males and so only affected females survive.
Answered 8/23/2013
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