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Keywords: Inherited, Homogametic, Heterogametic, Syrians, Hemophilia

Related Terms: Allele, Dominant, Genotype, Heredity, Heritable, Mendelian, Recessive, Heterozygote, X-Linked, Heterozygous, Homozygous, Dominant Inheritance, Alleles, Mendelian Inheritance, Sex-Linked, Autosomal Dominant, Codominance, Mutant, Homozygote, Dominance, Autosomal Dominant Inheritance, Autosomal Recessive Inheritance, Polygenic Inheritance, Autosomal Recessive, Recessive Inheritance, Recessive Gene, Codominant, Congenic, Dominant Allele, Dominant Gene, Maternal Inheritance, Genetic Heterogeneity, Incomplete Dominance, Testcross, Test Cross, Recessive Allele, Heterozygosity, Polygenic, Loss Of Heterozygosity, Dominant Trait, Complementation, Homozygosity, Recessive Trait, Sex Linkage, Haploinsufficiency, Quantitative Trait Locus, Phenocopy, Inbred Strain, Hemizygous, Complex Trait

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Pattern of inheritance in which certain characteristics carried on the X chromosome inherited from the mother are transmitted differently to her male and female offspring. (49)

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Inheritance of characteristics that are determined by genes present on either the X or Y chromosome.

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recessively inherited conditions caused by genes located on the X chromosome. More prevalent examples are hemophilia and muscular dystrophy.

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a special inheritance pattern for genes located on the X chromosome; the trait in question may be observed only in heterogametic individuals, and much less frequently in homogametic individuals

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A characteristic in which the mutant allel is carried on the sex chromosome and is governed by the sex of the animal such as the yellow color gene in Syrians.

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