Herencia ligada al sexo es la expresión fenotípica de un alelo relacionado con la alosoma (cromosoma sexual) del individuo. En los cromosomas autosomas los dos géneros (la herencia genética de sus padres) tengan la misma probabilidad de existencia, (véase Principio de Fisher), resumido por Ronald Fisher, pero dado que los seres humanos tienen muchos más genes en el cromosoma X que en el cromosoma Y, existen muchos más rasgos ligados al X que al Y. En mamíferos, los sexos homogamético y heterogamético son la hembra (homogamético XX), y el macho (heterogamético XY). Genes en el X o Y se llaman ligados al sexo. En el pájaro Sistema de determinación del sexo ZW del pájaro lo opuesto ocurre, con machos homogaméticos, con dos cromosoma Z (ZZ), y hembras heterogaméticas (ZW).

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Sex linkage is the phenotypic expression of an allele related to the allosome (sex chromosome) of the individual. In autosomal chromosomes both sexes have the same probability of existing (see Fisher's principle), but since humans have many more genes on the female X chromosome than on the male Y chromosome, these are much more common than Y-linked traits. In mammals, the female is homogametic, with two X chromosomes (XX), while the male is the heterogametic sex, with one X and one Y chromosome (XY). Genes on the X or Y chromosome are called sex-linked. In ZW sex-determination system used by birds the opposite is true: the male is the homogametic sex (ZZ), and the female is heterogametic (ZW). X-linked recessive traits are expressed in all heterogametics, but are only expressed in those homogametics that are homozygous for the recessive allele. For example, an X-linked recessive allele in humans causes haemophilia, which is much more common in males than females because they are hemizygous (see zygosity) and therefore express the trait when they inherit one mutant allele. In contrast, a female must inherit two mutant alleles, a less frequent event since the mutant allele is rare in the population. The incidence of recessive X-linked phenotypes in females is the square of that in males (squaring a proportion less than one gives an outcome closer to 0 than the original). If 1 in 20 males in a human population are red-green color blind, then 1 in 400 females in the population are expected to be color-blind (1/20)*(1/20). (The term 'color-blind' is not completely accurate. There are degrees of weakness in color vision and it is now called 'color vision deficiency'.) X-linked traits are maternally inherited from carrier mothers or from an affected father. Each son born to a carrier mother has a 50% probability of inheriting the X-chromosome carrying the mutant allele. There are a few Y-linked traits; these are inherited from father. In classical genetics, a reciprocal cross is performed to test if a trait is sex-linked.

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