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NS FL# 5, B/B, Passage 10, recessive inheritance confusion

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So I can see why TEX11 inheritance isn't sex-linked because the gene is on chromosome 12, but then why does the son exhibit the phenotype when he only gets one mutant allele from his mother and one wild-type allele from his father. Shouldn't he be heterozygous for the gene too? In the passage it says that TEX11 has a recessive mode of inheritance. To me the only way the son could exhibit the trait if it is an X-Linked gene and he gets the mutant X gene from his mother and Y from his dad....

NS FL# 5, B/B, Passage 10, recessive inheritance confusion

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