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Inheritance of most X-linked traits is not dominant or recessive, just X-linked.
American journal of medical genetics. Part A - 30 Aug 2004
Dobyns William B, Filauro Allison, Tomson Brett N, Chan April S, Ho Allen W, Ting Nicholas T, Oosterwijk Jan C, Ober Carole
Abstract excerpt
The existence of X-linked disorders in humans has been recognized for many centuries, based on lessons in religious texts and observations of specific human families (e.g., color blindness or Daltonism). Our modern concepts of Mendelian (including X-linked) inheritance originated just after the turn of the last century. Early concepts of dominance and recessiveness were first used in conjunction with autosomal...
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