Autosomal dominant inheritance with sex-limited manifestation: An unusual mode of transmission in humans and animals.

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Autosomal dominant, sex-limited inheritance is a distinct mode of transmission that should not be conflated with X-linked inheritance. From animal studies, we know that sex-limited inheritance implies the chance to "turn off" some genes in either males or females, in order to meliorate the phenotype, for example, by improving the fecundity. In this way, sex-limited genes play an important role in the evolution of...

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