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Sex-linked conditions are more common in men than in women because

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men have a y chromosome which has less genes so some recessive traits (which normally require 2 bad genes) can be found in people with only one recessive allele because the x chromosome has more genes while females have to have 2 recessive alleles because they have two x's
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