X-Linked Dominant Traits

X-linked dominant traits affect both males and females. 

Although they often appear more frequently in females than in males.

Affected males must have affected mothers (unless the males possess a new mutation), and they pass the trait to all their daughters.

Affected daughters must have either an affected mother or an affected father.

X-linked dominant traits do not skip generations.

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In smooth muscle, desmin filaments link cytoplasmic dense bodies to the plasma membrane to ensure that cells resist overstretching.

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In skeletal muscle, 

The desmin filaments encircle the Z disk and are cross-linked to the plasma membrane. 

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Type IV Ifs consist of the three related subunits

NF-L, NF-M, and NF-H that make up the neurofilaments found in the axons of neurons

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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease) 

neurodegenerative disease 

associated with an accumulation and abnormal assembly

of neurofilaments in motor neuron cell bodies and in the axon

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In humans, three genes encode lamins: 

Lamins A and C (alternatively spliced gene) 

Lamins B1 and B2

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B-type lamins - expressed in essentially all cells (primordial lamin proteins)

lamins A and C - developmentally regulated