Characteristics of Sex (X) linked recessive disorders
 Examples of X linked recessive disorders
- Male affected almost exclusively.
- Transmission through carrier females.
- Male to male transmission does not occur.
- All daughters of affected males are carriers.
 Examples of X linked recessive disorders- Anhidrotic ectodermal dysplasia
- Becker muscular dystrophy
- Choroideraemia
- Colour blindness
- Duchenne muscular dystrophy
- Emery Dreifuss muscular dystrophy
- Fabry disease
- Fragile X syndrome
- G 6 P D deficiency
- Haemophilia A, B
- Hunter syndrome (MPS II)
- Ihthyosis (steroid sulphatase deficiency)
- Lesch Nyhan syndrome
- Menkes syndrome
- Ocular albinism
- Ornitine transcarbamylase deficiency
- Retinitis transcarbamylase deficiency
- Retinitis pigmentosa (Some types)
- Testicular feminisation syndrome