Information and Inheritance-Mendelian Inheritance and Inherited diseases

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  • Created on: 03-04-13 10:01
What are the deviations from Mendel's laws?
lethal alleles, gene with more than two alleles, heterozygous co-dominance, gene affecting more than one trait, epistasis, linkage, mitochondrial DNA.
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What are lethal alleles?
gene variants which cause death when expressed in homozygous
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What are monogenic diseases caused by?
loss of function mutations. means that the gene product has no or reduced function.
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What is autosomal dominant inheritance?
Affected person has at least one affected parent
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What is autosomal recessive inheritance?
Affected children of both sexes from unaffected asymptomatic carriers
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What are lethal alleles?

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gene variants which cause death when expressed in homozygous

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What are monogenic diseases caused by?

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What is autosomal dominant inheritance?

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What is autosomal recessive inheritance?

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