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

This tallies with the fact that the gene is carried on the X chromosome.

From BBC • May 15, 2025

Any egg fertilized by a Y-bearing sperm will become a male with white eyes because the only X chromosome that the male contains comes from his mother and is white producing.

From A Critique of the Theory of Evolution by Morgan, Thomas Hunt