Non-Mendelian Inheritance

Question 1

What is familial aggregation?

Answer 1

Where relieves share a feasted proportion of their alleles than with unrelated individuals in a population
Doesn’t always indicate genetics

Question 2

What does concordance mean?

Answer 2

That two individuals in the family have the same disease

Question 3

What is empiric risk?

Answer 3

Used to predict recurrence of a multifactorial trait in a family

Question 4

What is a dynamic mutation?

Answer 4

An unstable heritable element where the probability of expression of a mutant phenotype is a function of the number of copies of the mutation