File:Autosomal dominant inheritance, pedigree example.png

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Summary
Description Example of the pedigree of a hereditary, genetic trait being transmitted through (3) generations, doing so in an autosomal dominant fashion

Pedigree itself: -A man with a genetic variant (red hexagon) has children with a woman without the genetic variant (white circle) -Out of the three children they have, two of them end up inheriting the genetic variant and it's signs/symptoms. -As they (the children) grow into adults, one of them (a woman) meets another person from a different family (a man), and ends up having children with them; the person they met is from a family that doesn't carry the genetic variant she inherited from her father. -After having children (3), 2 out of the three end up having the genetic variant, showing how the process in which a genetic variant "runs in the family" Summary of people within the family being affected: 3 men affected by genetic variant.

2 women affected by genetic variant.
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Author Rollcloud
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