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We started with a little overview of, and a demonstration on how to use, the Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM) catalogue. The catalogue of human Mendelian traits.
Then we started covering the modes of inheritance that can be inferred from pedigree analysis. We went over autosomal recessive and autosomal dominant traits, and we started sex-linked traits, with X-linked dominant and X-linked recessive traits. We examined pedigrees and observed the characteristics they exhibited.
We discussed examples of diseases inherited in each one of these modes.
Tomorrow: More about modes of inheritance, and variations of gene expression. Oh, and possibly an activity to wake up people during class...
Huh...? What is this guy doing in a genetics class blog?
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