Today we practiced pedigree analysis when a trait is controlled by several genes and environmental factors. Students learned how to identify a complex trait on a pedigree and to estimate the most plausible mechanism explaining the pattern of inheritance observed in a pedigree.
We introduced the concepts of threshold traits and genetic liability, and used them to calculate the risk of parents conceiving a child affected by a multifactorial disease (an example of a threshold trait)
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