X chromosome
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They also generally have a more active immune response, partly due to genetic factors like the X chromosome.
From Science Daily • Apr. 13, 2026
The team analyzed modern human DNA preserved in Neanderthals, and found an abundance on the X chromosome -- the mirror opposite of humans.
From Barron's • Feb. 26, 2026
Researchers suspected that the mutation causing the condition was somewhere on the X chromosome, because females, which have two X chromosomes, are less affected.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 6, 2025
Multicolored cats from such a cross are almost always female, suggesting the gene variant that makes fur orange or black is located on the X chromosome.
From Science Magazine • Nov. 27, 2024
The ovum then with one X chromosome or one X and one Y changes its sex at the next reduction division and becomes male.
From Hormones and Heredity by Cunningham, J. T.
