Sentences with phrase «dominant pattern of inheritance»

The disorder has an autosomal dominant pattern of inheritance, but the causative genes are unknown.

In HCM, an autosomal dominant pattern of inheritance has been documented.

Both strains of mice were extremely fat, a trait that was passed on to their offspring in a simple, dominant pattern of inheritance, like eye color.

Not exact matches

The intent seems to be to shake us out of our normal patterns of experience by doing away with the possibility of a mute of dominant inheritance.

Zoghbi decided to study the genetic basis of spinocerebellar ataxia type 1 (SCA1), which has a strong dominant inheritance pattern in family trees.

Methods: We identified a family with nine AD patients spanning four generations, with an inheritance pattern suggestive of autosomal dominant AD, with no variants in PSEN1, PSEN2, or APP.

The unexpected finding was that a minority of them had diagnoses of variants that fit other inheritance patterns (5 cases with autosomal dominant variants and one with an X-linked variant).

In several breeds, particularly Samoyeds and Siberian huskies, PRA is passed on in a dominant inheritance pattern, meaning that even if a dog gets only one copy of the gene, it will develop the disease.

Determine the inheritance pattern of the disease (dominant, recessive, sex - linked or polygenic).

An understanding of simple autosomal recessive and dominant patterns, as explained above, can allow the breeder to make better informed decisions (even though we do not yet know the mechanism of inheritance) and likely avoid future deaf animals without sacrificing a breeding line that has been shaped over many years.