Genetic Disorder and Pedigrees

Learning Outcomes

  • Understand why geneticists use pedigrees to track human diseases
  • Understand how a pedigree analysis is used to identify the inheritance pattern of a genetic disorder

The following video provides a summary of all you have just learned about pedigrees, including differences in family inheritance patterns based on autosomal dominant, autosomal recessive, or sex-linked inheritance of a particular characteristic.