Rights Act of 18663 and then in section 1 of the Fourteenth. Amendment.4 In doing so, Congress set aside the Dred Scott hold-. ing, and restored the traditional precepts of citizenship by birth.5. Based on the first sentence of section 1,6 the Court has held.
Grouped into 23 pairs, we get one set from our mother and the other from our father. One of these pairs of chromosomes determines if a person is male or female: Males (XY) get the X chromosome from the mother and the Y chromosome from the father. Females (XX) inherit one X chromosome from each parent. The Fragile X premutation can be passed silently down through generations in a family before a child is affected by the syndrome.
Have you heard of fragile X syndrome? If not, youâre not the only one. Most people would be surprised to learn that itâs the most common identified cause of inherited intellectual disability. Fragile X syndrome is also the most common known cause of autism or autism spectrum disorders. Even the vast majority of individuals who have fragile X syndrome have not been diagnosed, and family members who carry the trait are completely unaware that their unborn children could also be at risk.