X-linked recessive inheritance

Usually,men are affected and women are carriers

SOME EXAMPLES

Color blindness

Hemophilia A

Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

Becker's muscular dystrophy;

Hemophilia B; a blood clotting disorder caused by a mutation of the Factor IX gene, leading to a deficiency of Factor IX. It is rarer than haemophilia A. It's also called Christmas disease

X-linked ichthyosis; a skin condition (ichthyosis)

X-linked agammaglobulinemia

Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency