X-linked mutation

genetics

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metabolic disease

  • Enzyme defects in urea cycle disorders.
    In metabolic disease: Inheritance

    …male offspring who inherit an X-linked mutation are affected, because the Y chromosome of the XY pair does not have a compensating normal gene. Because the mutation is on the X chromosome and males transmit only the Y chromosome to their sons during fertilization, fathers do not transmit the disease…

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