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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

"These ginger and black patches form because, early in development, one X chromosome in each cell is randomly switched off," explains Prof Hiroyuki Sasaki, geneticist at Kyushu University.

From BBC • May 15, 2025

The ovum then with one X chromosome or one X and one Y changes its sex at the next reduction division and becomes male.

From Hormones and Heredity by Cunningham, J. T.