Genetics and Genomics

Mutants of normal red eye such as the one shown here have produced many variants, some of them are sex linked.

(SOURCE: SHUTTERSTOCK).

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SEX LINKAGE AND HOLANDRIC TRANSMISSION

CONCEPT OUTLINE

Pattern of Sex-Linked Gene Transmission

Sex-Linked Genes in Drosophila

■ White eye locus

Sex Linkage in Humans

■ X-linked dominant genes

■ X-linked recessive genes

■ Colour blindness

■ Molecular biology of colour perception

■ General types of Haemophilias

■ Deficiency of Enzyme G6PD

■ Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, DMD

■ Molecular Structure of Dystrophin

■ Lesch–Nyhan syndrome

■ Fragile X syndrome and mental retardness in human

■ Other sex linked traits ...