Let me share with you a comparison between X-Linked Traits and Y- Linked Traits.
| Aspect | X-Linked Traits | Y-Linked Traits |
| Genes location on chromosome | Genes are located on the X chromosome. | Genes are located on the Y chromosome. |
| Inheritance pattern | Typically, X-linked traits are recessive or dominant. | Y-linked traits are usually dominant. |
| Affected individuals | · Both males and females can carry and express X-linked traits.
· Males are more often affected due to hemizygosity. |
· Only males (XY individuals) express Y-linked traits.
· Females (XX) do not carry these traits. |
| Mode of transmission | · Mothers can pass X-linked traits to both sons and daughters.
· Fathers pass the Y chromosome to their sons. |
· Y-linked traits are transmitted exclusively from fathers to their sons. |
| Examples | · Hemophilia
· Red-green color blindness · Duchenne muscular dystrophy · Hemophilia |
· Male pattern baldness
· Y-linked congenital deafness |