Human Heredity: Principles and Issues (MindTap Course List)
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Chapter 4, Problem 21QP
Analysis of X-Linked Dominant and Recessive Traits
As a genetic counselor investigating a genetic disorder in a family, you are able to collect a four-generation pedigree that details the inheritance of the disorder in question. Analyze the information in the pedigree to determine whether the trait is inherited as:
- a. autosomal dominant
- b. autosomal recessive
- c. X-linked dominant
- d. X-linked recessive
- e. Y-linked
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PEDIGREE ANALYSIS and SYMBOLOGY:
Examine the pedigree which has X linked Dominant inheritance of disorder. Use letter X* (asterisk denotes disorder) as genotype of the individuals which can be XX, XY, X*X*, X*X and X*Y.
a. What is the genotype of IV-6?
b. What is the genotype of III-6?
c. What is the genotype of II-3?
d. What is the genotype of III-8?
e. If couple I-1 and I-2 will have a son, what is the probability of having the disorder?
f. If couple III-8 and III-9 will have another child, what is the probability of having the disorder?
g. Theoretically, if individual IV-3 and individual IV-5 will marry and will have a child, what is the probability of having a child without the X-linked disorder?
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