Purpose: While the mode of inheritance of a genetic condition has long been considered to have not only medical, but also psychosocial consequences for families, this supposition has never been tested ...

It’s a commonly observed habit in families to draw likenesses between members of the youngest generation and their ancestors. “This baby has a smile like her mother,” one would say, or, “He has ...

In Mendelian inheritance patterns, you receive one version of a gene, called an allele, from each parent. These alleles can be dominant or recessive. Non-Mendelian genetics don’t completely follow ...

Genetics is the study of how heritable traits are transmitted from parents to offspring. Humans have long observed that traits tend to be similar in families. It wasn’t until the mid-nineteenth ...

Purpose: The aim of this article was to determine the accuracy and efficiency of World Wide Web (“Web”) resources to help nongeneticists answer four clinical questions about each of five common ...

Mendel’s monastery garden experiments went largely unnoticed during his life, but their implications would ripple through ...