sex-linked inheritance
Sex-linked inheritance refers to the pattern of genetic inheritance where certain traits or disorders are carried on the sex chromosomes (particularly the X chromosome), resulting in a higher likelihood of their expression in one sex over the other.
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- autosomal dominant inheritance
- autosomal inheritance
- autosomal recessive inheritance
- epigenetic inheritance
- evolutionary inheritance
- genetic inheritance patterns
- heredity
- lamarckian inheritance
- maternal inheritance
- mendelian inheritance
- non-genetic inheritance
- paternal inheritance
- transgenerational inheritance
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- x-linked recessive inheritance