Answer:
It can and cannot be.
What is rickets?
Rickets is a bone-related disorder caused by the deficit of vitamin-D, phosphate or calcium.
How can you inherit rickets?
1. When a mother has traces of the rickets disease, the offspring can indeed have the same traces as the mother.
2. In the other hand, there is a type of rickets, the [hereditary] hypophosphatemic rickets (low phosphate levels and resistance to vitamin-D treatments), that does indeed have an inheritance pattern, according to the Genetics Home Reference.
2.1 There is a gene called PHEX that is found in the x-chromosome, and, when a mutation of this gene occurs, it can cause the so called hereditary hypophosphatemic rickets.
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