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The best known examples in humans are color-blindness and muscular dystrophy. Males are the ones that are the most vulnerable because the Y chromosome is shorter than the X chromosomes that females have.

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Most sex linked traits are linked to the X chromosome, for example diseases like hemophilia, G6PD, Fragile X syndrome, Lesh-Nyhan, Duchenne Muscular dystrophy, and also red-green color blindness. These are all inherited from a mutant or diseased X chromosome, and there are 2 patterns of inheritance: recessive and dominant. Most of the X linked diseases are inherited in a recessive pattern, very few are inherited as dominant alleles, for example Fragile X syndrome.

Y linked diseases are very rare, even in clinical practice.

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Sex-linked traits are governed by genes on a sex chromosome. They are usually X-linked because the Y-chromosome carries so few genes. Two examples of X-linked traits are red-green colorblindness and hemophilia.

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Examples of sex-linked traits are colorblindness, hemophilia, and baldness.

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Color blindness , hemophilia , white eye genes etc.

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14y ago

not blue eyes, most likely baldness

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