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by george_pavlov 4934 days ago
While an interesting hypothesis, it seems unlikely: one copy of each x-chromosome is deactivated in each cell, and this is done randomly in development.
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This is one of the reasons women have superior colour vision to men so it's likely enough. Some women have two different types of red cones while men have a maximum of one. There are many other sex linked diseases as well. Unless an allele is fully dominant if it's on the X chromosome men will display hreater variance.