'Mutation' behind female brain disease
news.com.au     May 11, 2008            

THE male sex chromosome appears to have saved men from suffering a rare but debilitating brain disorder passed down through generations to women only. ... Australian researchers have become the first to unearth the genetic cause of a hereditary disease that triggers... [read full story]                

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