X-linked recessive inheritance: Difference between revisions

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==Examples==

Red-Green [[color blindness]] is a classic example of an X-linked trait because it is easy to explain the phenotype and it's relatively common (7% to 10% of men are carriers making the above calculations predict 0.49% to 1% for women). It's commonness is possibly attributable to it not being a serious disability in most cases and an actual advantage in some situation (for example, not being distracted by some of the color in color based camoflaugecamouflage). [[Hemophilia A]] is another famous example because it was found in European royal families who intermarried and were famous enough that their pedigrees could be established and offered in textbooks as a "famous example" of an X-linked trait that had been documented in history books before mendelian genetics was understood.

Traits or diagnoses known or suspected to be X-linked (at least in some forms of the diagnosis) are:

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==External links==

*[http://genome.wellcome.ac.uk/doc%5Fwtd020851.html X-linked diseases] from the [[Wellcome Trust]]

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