sex-linked

Examples

• All

• Many genetic disorders, such as hemophilia, are sex-linked and primarily affect males due to the inheritance pattern.

• He probably stated this because some sex-linked genetic disorders do correlate with lower verbal intelligence quotients (IQs) (Pennington, Puck, & Robinson, 1980).

  Academic text (1990)

• You think that this represents sex linked inheritance.

• "The special significance of these results is that spatial ability is thought to be one of the most sex-linked areas of math."

  Academic text (2007)

• And so this color blindness exhibits a different type of inheritance pattern, which is known as sex linked recessive.

• Turner's syndrome, a sex-linked genetic disorder, affects approximately 1 in 2,000 women.

  Academic text (1990)

• Color patterning, the scientists determined, is heritable and may be sex-linked, coded for by a cluster of genes on the male's Y chromosome.

  Academic text (2001)

• Orten brings an unusual perspective to her examination of a sex-linked genetic disorder; she is a social worker who has Turner’s syndrome.

  Academic text (1990)

• Developments in assisted reproductive technologies, occurring as part of the genetics revolution, have made it possible for parents to select the sex of a child prenatally on the basis of preference rather than to prevent sex-linked genetic disorders.

  Academic text (2005)

• Hemophilia was known to be sex-linked. J. Bell and Haldane (1937) calculated the recombination value between the loci for hemophilia and color blindness.

  Academic text (1992)

Synonyms

X

X-linked

vssex-linked

• Specialized

1 8.5

A gene or condition on the X chromosome

is broader, covers traits on any sex chromosome rather than only the X

Antonyms

A

autosomal

• Specialized

2 7.5

Relating to chromosomes that are not sex chromosomes

How Sex-Linked

X-linked

• Specialized

1 8.5

sex-linked

• Specialized

1 7.0

autosomal

• Specialized

2 7.5

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology