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Originally Posted by squirrely girl
there is also some belief that boys are more succeptible to autism (as well as other disorders) given that they only have one copy of each chromosome. if girls have something go wrong with one of their chromosomes, they naturally have a "backup" - boys don't.
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You must be talking about the X chromosome because males have the same number of chromosomes as females. So far, however, the genes they are finding associated with autism (not just one disease by the way, this is a spectrum of diseases that all get labeled as autism) have not been on the X chromosome. There are many disease processes that are more common in one sex versus the other that have nothing to do with the X or Y chromosome.