genetics

[Joel S. Berson]

At 4/29/2010 02:59 PM, Alison Murie wrote:
>Women carry the gene; men express it.

Alison,

Can you remind me how a gene carried by only one gender becomes
"expressed" in the other?  (I assume that if (only) women carry the
gene, it must be in the Y chromosome.)

Joel

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