Who is Affected
Boys and girls can be affected by fragile x syndrome, because it is a sex-linked disease, meaning it travels on the X chromosome. However, because it is on the X chromosome, it is more common in males. This is because the genotype for a male is XY, so there is no other X chromosome to pair up and possibly make the person a carrier of the disorder, rather than have it. It is less common in females because they have the genotype XX, even if they get the disease on one X chromosome, they might not get it on another.
The exact numbers for how many males or females get fragile x are almost impossible to collect, because it is impossible to tally every single person with FXS, but the US National Library of Medicine published that it is most likely 1 in 4,000 males, and 1 in 8,000 females. This is 0.025% of the population of the United States for the males, and 0.0125% of the population of the United States for girls.
While FXS might take away from some mental and physical activities, individuals with the disorder are no different from you or me. They can do the same activities, just sometimes at different speeds or levels of difficulty. Sadly, kids with FXS can be picked on or bullied just because they're different. This is completely wrong and violators should be persecuted.
The exact numbers for how many males or females get fragile x are almost impossible to collect, because it is impossible to tally every single person with FXS, but the US National Library of Medicine published that it is most likely 1 in 4,000 males, and 1 in 8,000 females. This is 0.025% of the population of the United States for the males, and 0.0125% of the population of the United States for girls.
While FXS might take away from some mental and physical activities, individuals with the disorder are no different from you or me. They can do the same activities, just sometimes at different speeds or levels of difficulty. Sadly, kids with FXS can be picked on or bullied just because they're different. This is completely wrong and violators should be persecuted.