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Genetic Inheritance Patterns: Consanguineous Marriages and Mendelian Traits

Explore the complexities of genetic inheritance, including consanguineous marriages, autosomal dominant and recessive traits, and sex-linked inheritance patterns. Understand terms like proband, sibship, and penetrance in the context of genetic counseling and inheritance risk assessment.

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Genetic Inheritance Patterns: Consanguineous Marriages and Mendelian Traits

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  1. Some terms Consanguineous marriage: between related individuals Proband, or propositus: index case or case that originally attracts attention of the geneticist to a family Sibship: a family Penetrance: the number of people with the gene that actually exhibit the trait.

  2. Characteristics of autosomal dominant inheritance: A gene is dominant if it is expressed when heterozygous 2. An affected individual has a 50% chance of having an affected child. An affected child will have one affected parent The affected parent can be either the mother or the father 5. Autosomal dominant traits have low frequencies in the population Autosomal dominant traits are usually lethal when homozygous No skipping of generations

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  4. Exceptions to strict dominant inheritance: Variable expressivity: can occur in different forms or locations 2 Reduced penetrance: not all individuals with the gene express the trait.

  5. Autosomal recessive inheritance: Unaffected parents have affected children Affected individual has unaffected children unless they marry a heterozygote or an affected person Sexes are affected equally All normal children of an affected individual will be heterozygotes or “carriers” 5. Often there has been a consanguineous marriage

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  7. Sex linked recessive inheritance Gene is on the X chromosome Males are affected more often than females Carrier females have affected and normal sons at a 1:1 ratio

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