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
Arhgap36’s inactivation pattern in calicos and tortoiseshells is typical of a gene on the X chromosome, Brown says, but it’s unusual that a deletion mutation would make a gene more active, not less.
From Science Magazine • Nov. 27, 2024
The X sex-chromosome is not in itself either female or male, since, as we have seen, either ovum or spermatozoon may contain a single X chromosome.
From Hormones and Heredity by Cunningham, J. T.