X-linked disease

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Food Biotechnology

A genetic disease caused by a mutation on the X chromosome. In X-linked recessive conditions, a normal female "carrier" passes on the mutated X chromosome to an affected son.

Susan Allender-Hagedorn and Charles Hagedorn — An Agricultural and Environmental Biotechnology Annotated Dictionary

A genetic disease caused by an allele at a locus on the X-chromosome.

UN Food and Agriculture Organization — Glossary of Biotechnology for Food and Agriculture