Only males are affected in?: (A) Scheie's syndrome, (B) Hunters syndrome, (C) Hurlers syndrome, (D) Gauchers disease
Answer is B. Inheritance of: -* Gaucher's disease- Autosomal recessive- Affects both males and females* Hurler syndrome- Autosomal recessive- Affects both males and females* Scheie's syndrome- Autosomal recessive- Affects both males and females* Hunters syndrome- X linked recessive- Only affect malesMost probably the question should have been, "Only males are affected in"The answer would have been Hunters syndromeAll these are lysosomal storage diseases.Remember that - "All lysosomal diseases are autosomal recessive except for Hunter's syndrome and Fabry's disease which are X- linked recessive"As hunter's syndrome is X-linked recessive, it will affect onl males.