Genetics and Pedigree Analysis

Question 1

Patterns of inheritance where males and females are equally affected

Answer 1

Autosomal dominant Autosomal Recessive

Question 2

Pattern of inheritance where there is no generation skipping

Answer 2

Autosomal dominant

Question 3

Patterns of inheritance where male-to-male transmission may occur

Answer 3

Autosomal dominant and Autosomal Recessive

Question 4

Pattern of inheritance where consanguinity is an important factor

Answer 4

Autosomal recessive

Question 5

Pattern of inheritance where males are more affected than females

Answer 5

X-linked recessive

Question 6

Pattern of inheritance where no father-to-son transmission happens

Answer 6

X-linked dominant and X-linked recessive

Question 7

Pattern of inheritance where all daughters of an affected male will be carriers

Answer 7

X-linked recessive

Question 8

Pattern of inheritance where all daughters of an affected male will be affected

Answer 8

X-linked dominant

Question 9

Pattern of inheritance dependent on environmental factors

Answer 9

Non-mendelian Gentics

Question 10

Pattern of inheritance associated with maternal inheritance

Answer 10

Mitochondrial inheritance

Question 11

Pattern of inheritance where an expansion of segments of the DNA contains a great number of repeat nucleotides

Answer 11

Triplet expansion

Question 12

Pattern of inheritance where only 1 gene is expressed

Answer 12

Genomic imprinting