Institution/s: Universidad de Saarbrücken, Universidad de Valladolid
Project: Diccionario Terminológico de Genética (Eurogene)
Identification number: 121
Subdomains: Studies of chromatin, Studies of DNA, Studies of RNA, Techniques
Author/s: Isaac MORENO RUIZ, Patricia ROJO DE DOMINGO, Rosario HERRERO, Susana ALVAREZ ALVAREZ
Creation / modification date: 02-02-2014
Term: sex linked inheritance
Gramatical category: s
Definition: The transmission to successive generations of traits that are due to alleles at gene loci on a sex chromosome.
Context: Sex-linked inheritance regularly shows different phenotypic ratios in the two sexes of progeny, as well as different ratios in reciprocal crosses.