Question

Males are more likely to suffer from muscular dystrophy than females because

Answer 1

"Males who inherit the mutation get the disease because they have no second dystrophin gene to make up for the faulty one. Early in the embryonic development of a female, either the X chromosome from the mother (maternal X) or the one from the father (paternal X) is inactivated in each cell."

(courtesy https://www.mda.org)