pedigree
a diagram of the genetic history of an individual or family
Source: Jenkins, John B. 1990. Human Genetics, 2nd Edition. New York: Harper & Row ...
Pedigree
A pedigree is a genetic representation of a family tree that diagrams the inheritance of a trait or disease though several generations.
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Pedigree and Analysis
1. Construct a pedigree of your family or the family of a friend for a single inherited trait. It can be a normal human variation (e.g.
pedigree analysis A type of genetic analysis in which a trait is traced through several generations of a family to determine how the trait is inherited. The information is displayed in a pedigree chart using standard symbols.
pedigree
A family tree describing the occurrence of heritable characters in parents and offspring across as many generations as possible.
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Pedigree The lineage or record of ancestors of a germplasm.
PFAM Pfam is a database of multiple alignments of protein domains or conserved protein regions.
Pedigree The members of a family, also used to describe a diagram of their relationships one to another and with information on the inheritance of one or more conditions or genetic loci.
Pedigree. A diagram mapping the genetic history of a par- ticular family.
Persistence. Ability of an organism to remain in a particular setting for a period of time after it is introduced.
Pedigrees
It is often easy to visualize relationships within an extended family by using symbols to represent people and relationships. A family tree which uses these symbols is called a pedigree. A sample pedigree is below.
Pedigree A family tree diagram that shows how a particular genetic trait or disease has been inherited.
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A pedigree chart from The Kallikak Family meant to show how one illicit tryst could lead to an entire generation of imbeciles.
The pedigree shows the inheritance of a RFLP marker through three generations in a single family. A total of 8 alleles (numbered to the left of the blots) are present in the family.
A form of pedigree depicting schematically the flow of genes from ancestors to descendants.
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Descent; pedigree; extraction. Honest gentlemen, i know not your breeding. (Shak) Close breeding, in and in breeding, breeding from a male and female from the same parentage.
Linkage -- analysis of pedigree the tracking of a gene through a family by following the inheritance of a (closely associated) gene or trait and a DNA marker.
Man scans with scrupulous care the character and pedigree of his horses, cattle, and dogs before he matches them; but when he comes to his own marriage he rarely, or never, takes any such care. ...
Those reasons lead to difficulties in applying pedigree analysis, the study of family trees, to the Y. In fact, no gene on the Y chromosome has had its existence correctly inferred from the study of family trees.
 See also: Human, Genetics, DNA, Genome, Family
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