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Kinky hair disease is a disorder where an affected child has peculiar white stubby hair, does not grow, brain degeneration is seen and dies by age of two years. Mrs A is hesitant about having children because her two sisters had sons who had died form kinky hair disease. Her mother’s brother also died of the same condition. Which of the following is the possible mode of inheritance in her family –

AX-linked recessive
BX-linked dominant
CAutosomal recessive
DAutosomal dominant
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