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Genetic Inheritance Patterns in Humans: A Quick Overview

Explore human genetics through 46 chromosomes, pedigrees, blood types, diseases like Cystic Fibrosis and Sickle Cell Anemia, and sex-linked traits. Understand how extra chromosomes and sex chromosomes impact development.

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Genetic Inheritance Patterns in Humans: A Quick Overview

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  1. Human Genetics Ch. 14

  2. Quick Review • 46 chromosomes • 22 pairs of autosomes • 1 pair of sex chromosomes • XX = ♀ XY = ♂ • 30,000+ genes • 3,100,000,000 bases

  3. Pedigrees • Diagram used to show how traits are inherited in a family • Like a genetic family tree

  4. Blood Types • Multiple alleles – IA, IB, i

  5. Blood Types • Two couples had babies in the same hospital at the same time and the babies got mixed up. Doctors determine whose baby is whose using blood type analysis. The Johnson couple has blood types of B and AB; the Smith couple has blood types of B and A. Baby 1 has a blood type of A and Baby 2 has a blood type of O. Which baby belongs to which couple?

  6. Cystic Fibrosis • Most common in Northern Europeans and their descendants • 1/2500 births • Recessive disorder • Lungs clog with mucus, digestive problems

  7. Sickle Cell Anemia • Most common in Africans and their descendants • Protects against malaria • Malaria protist can’t infect sickle cells • Better to be heterozygous, than to not carry the sickle cell allele in areas with malaria

  8. Sex-linked Traits • X-chromosome carries 100s of genes • Since males only have one X, they show X-linked recessive alleles more often than females • Ex – hemophilia, colorblindness, muscular distrophy

  9. Sex-linked Cross • What are the odds of a son being colorblind if his mom’s dad was colorblind, but his mom and dad were normal? • XBXb x XBY

  10. Boy or Girl? • Y chromosome produces a protein that shuts off the X chromosome • Leads to male development • Females only need one X, so extra X is shut off at random in each cell • Turned off X called a Barr body • Leads to calico cats

  11. Extra Chromosomes?! • Nondisjuction in gametes – during metaphase I, sometimes the homologous chromosomes don’t separate • Usually lethal, except in chr. 21 and sex chr. (13 & 18 rarely trisomy) • Extra 21 – Trisomy 21 or Down Syndrome

  12. Sex Chromosomes  • Turner Syndrome – XO • Sterile, underdeveloped female • Klinefelter’s Syndrome – XXY, XXXY • Sterile, long arms and legs, shy • Triple X – XXX • Fertile, taller than average

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