In Mendelian inheritance patterns, you receive one version of a gene, called an allele, from each parent. These alleles can be dominant or recessive. Non-Mendelian genetics don’t completely ...

In humans, there are many other disorders that show multifactorial inheritance patterns, such as multiple sclerosis, diabetes, asthma, cancer, and numerous birth defects.

When leaving a substantial inheritance to a married adult child, how do you tell them not to commingle those funds with their spouse without it causing problems in their marriage? So far, my ...

HD: Discovery, Inheritance Patterns, and Phenotypes Figure 1: George Huntington as a young man. The title page of George Huntington's 1872 paper in the Medical and Surgical Reporter.

Random, biased, and dominant patterns of uniparental mitochondrial inheritance were observed, as well as rare cases of biparental inheritance, depending on the particular parental strains mated. The ...