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.
Weighting mark: nor
Sources:
Term: EMERY, A.E.H. y MUELLER, R.F. (1992) Elements of Medical Genetics, Churchill Livingstone: New York. 8th Edition.
Definition: FRANCIS, B M. (1971), Sex-linked inheritance of cortisone-induced cleft palate in three strains of mice. Abstr. Subject Strain Bibliography 1971. Paper 259. Consultado el 28 de enero de 2014. Disponible en http://mouseion.jax.org/ ssbb1971/259.
Context: GRIFFITHS AJF, MILLER JH, SUZUKI DT, et al. (2000) An Introduction to Genetic Analysis. 7th edition. New York: W. H. Freeman.