Genetic-sex-chromosome: Genetic chromosome diseases of the X or Y sex chromosomes
Introduction: Humans have 2 sex determining chromosomes: the X chromosome and Y chromosome. Men are XY and women are XX. Only men have a Y chromosome.
There are various sex chromosome disorders that affect the entire X and Y chromosomes, such that a person has some combination other than XX or XY pair. For example, there is XXX, XXY, XYY, XXXX and various other disorders.
Disease group: Sex chromosome conditions
Condition count: 4
Class types: Genetic (132), Genetic-chromosomal (18)
Classes: classes list
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