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A female who carries a defective recessive gene on one of her two X chromosomes has a 50% chance of passing the defective gene to her sons who will develop Fabry's disease associated with the defective gene.

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Genetic diseases are almost always capable of being passed to children from parents, but are not guaranteed to be passed.

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