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XY disorders: Down the line

By Marcella McEvoy, Nursery World, 5 November 2003

Many genetic disorders affect boys more than girls, for a characteristic reason, as doctors at Great Ormond Street Hospital explain in our A-Z series on child health...

Many genetic disorders affect boys more than girls, for a characteristic reason, as doctors at Great Ormond Street Hospital explain in our A-Z series on child health What is an X-linked condition? We have 46 chromosomes that we inherit from our parents. Among these are the X and Y sex chromosomes. Females have two X chromosomes, whereas males have one X and one Y chromosome. X-linked conditions arise from genes on the X...

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