Monday, March 16, 2009

Lecture, chapters 3 and 4 - Mendelian inheritance and Pedigree analyses

Today we finished chapter 3 in the book, on Mendelian inheritance, covering some of the variations on Mendel's findings: codominance, multiple alleles, and gene interaction, including epistasis.

On the other hand we began chapter 4, on pedigree analysis, talking about the six modes of inheritance we will be covering, in addition to the basic reasons for which pedigrees are so important when studying human genetics.

Tomorrow in lab: Mendelian genetics. The lab is being re-written so it will be posted late, but it will be up.

For Thursday: Read the remaining of chapter 4, and access the OMIM database, to get familiar with the kind onf information you can find there

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