Mendelian traits in humans

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Autosomal dominant
A 50/50 chance of inheritance.
Sickle-cell disease is inherited in the autosomal recessive pattern. When both parents have sickle-cell trait (carrier), a child has a 25% chance of sickle-cell disease (red icon), 25% do not carry any sickle-cell alleles (blue icon), and 50% have the heterozygous (carrier) condition.[1]
If one parent has sickle-cell anaemia and the other has sickle-cell trait, then the child has a 50% chance of having sickle-cell disease and a 50% chance of having sickle-cell trait.[1]
An example of the codominant inheritance of some of the four blood groups.

Mendelian traits in humans are human

codominance, and contributions from many genes. If a trait is genetically influenced, but not well characterized by Mendelian inheritance, it is non-Mendelian
.

Examples

Non-Mendelian traits

Most traits (including all complex traits) are non-mendelian. Some traits commonly thought of as Mendelian are not, including:

References

  1. ^ a b "Inheritance of Sickle Cell Anaemia". Sickle Cell Society. 13 July 2014. Archived from the original on 2018-03-27. Retrieved 2015-12-29.
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  5. ^ McDonald JH (16 September 2013). "Earwax". Myths of Human Genetics. Baltimore: Sparky House Publishing.
  6. ^ "Non-Mendelian Genetics". Untamed Science. Retrieved 2018-12-10.

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