CAS BI 216 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Phenylthiocarbamide, Polydactyly, Epistasis

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X-linked recessive: most affected individuals are male, males result from mothers -> determined by father, brother, uncle, all sons of affected females should be affected, 50% of sons of carrier females should be affected. Example: hemophilia in royal family (queen victoria: rare x-linked disease - must have a son that is affected; shows mother is carrier. Because -> x only go to daughters from father. All sons - x-a: affected mother. Example: phenylthiocarbamide tasting (common: unaffected individuals (carriers) -> have children who are affected, both parents that. Autosomal dominant: does not skip generations, an affected individual mating to unaffected individual produces app. 50% affected children: equal distribution of among sexes. Example - pedigree: males and females are affected, father to son affected - cannot be x-linked; must be autosomal. Example- polydactyly: father -> passing on to sons (autosomal, example of variable expressivity - don"t necessarily have same numbers of digits.

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