Adrenoleukodystrophy is a rare condition associated with abnormalities in myelin, the white matter that protects nerve fibers in the spinal cord and brain. It occurs due to a mutation on the X ...

Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a genetic condition that primarily affects people assigned male at birth. However, due to the condition’s X-linked inheritance pattern, only people assigned female ...

Biology is never as straightforward as we learned in high school. Take sex-linked chromosomes as an example: we’re taught that biological males get XY chromosomes while biological females get two ...