Fabry disease, which is inherited as an X-linked trait, affects males and females.

Fathers cannot pass X-linked traits on to their sons, so the mutation is transmitted by the mother.

In practice, the term almost always refers to X-linked traits.

For example, in humans red-green colorblindness is an X-linked recessive trait.

Familial hypophosphatemia is most often inherited as an X-linked trait.

The possible fourth type of Usher syndrome may be inherited as an X-linked genetic trait.

In most cases, phosphoglycerate kinase deficiency is inherited as an X-linked genetic trait.

Studies of X-linked traits confirmed that genes are found on chromosomes.

Adrenoleukodystrophy is passed down from parents to their children as an X-linked genetic trait.

Hunter syndrome is inherited as an X-linked recessive trait.