Mendelian traits in humans

Autosomal dominant
A 50/50 chance of inheritance.
Sickle-cell disease is inherited in the autosomal recessive pattern. When both parents have sickle-cell trait (carrier), a child has a 25% chance of sickle-cell disease (red icon), 25% do not carry any sickle-cell alleles (blue icon), and 50% have the heterozygous (carrier) condition.[1]
If one parent has sickle-cell anaemia and the other has sickle-cell trait, then the child has a 50% chance of having sickle-cell disease and a 50% chance of having sickle-cell trait.[1]
Heredity of phenotypic traits: Father and son with prominent ears and hair whorl.
An example of the codominant inheritance of some of the four blood groups.

Mendelian traits in humans concerns how, in Mendelian inheritance, a child receiving a dominant allele from either parent will have the dominant form of the phenotypic trait or characteristic. Only those that received the recessive allele from both parents, known as zygosity, will have the recessive phenotype. Those that receive a dominant allele from one parent and a recessive allele from the other parent will have the dominant form of the trait. Purely Mendelian traits are a tiny minority of all traits, since most phenotypic traits exhibit incomplete dominance, codominance, and contributions from many genes.

The recessive phenotype may theoretically skip any number of generations, lying dormant in heterozygous "carrier" individuals until they have children with someone who also has the recessive allele and both pass it on to their child.

Genes that do not follow Mendelian genetics include the human Y chromosome which is passed virtually unchanged from father to son. Similarly, the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) comes only from the mother and is given to both male and female children. [Epigenetic]] modifications, linked genes, and duplicated genes elsewhere in the genome will also lead to a non-mendelian inheritance of traits.

Examples

These traits include:

Questionable traits

May be Mendelian but there is conflicting evidence:

Traits previously believed to be Mendelian

Some traits were previously believed to be Mendelian, but their inheritance is based on dynamic genetic models, involving more than one gene. These include:[5]

  • Hair color
  • Morton's toe
  • Tongue rolling
  • Ability to taste phenylthiocarbamide (dominant) - largely determined by a single gene, TAS2R38, with two common alleles, though there are 8 possible haplotypes[6] Because it is not a trait where the dominant tastes and the recessive cannot, but rather a continuous gradient in ability to detect PTC, it is not a real example of a simple mendelian trait. This is best exemplified by the fact that two non-tasters (recessive trait) can, in fact, have a child that can taste PTC (dominant trait).[7]
  • Widow's peak (allele)
  • Detached (dominant) or attached (recessive) earlobes

Blood group inheritance

Blood groups that children may inherit from their parents.[8][9]

Blood group inheritance
Blood type O A B AB
Genotype ii (OO) IAi (AO) IAIA (AA) IBi (BO) IBIB (BB) IAIB (AB)
O ii (OO) O
OO OO OO OO		 O or A
AO OO AO OO		 A
AO AO AO AO		 O or B
BO OO BO OO		 B
BO BO BO BO		 A or B
AO BO AO BO
A IAi (AO) O or A
AO AO OO OO		 O or A
AA AO AO OO		 A
AA AA AO AO		 O, A, B or AB
AB AO BO OO		 B or AB
AB AB BO BO		 A, B or AB
AA AB AO BO
IAIA (AA) A
AO AO AO AO		 A
AA AO AA AO		 A
AA AA AA AA		 A or AB
AB AO AB AO		 AB
AB AB AB AB		 A or AB
AA AB AA AB
B IBi (BO) O or B
BO BO OO OO		 O, A, B or AB
AB BO AO OO		 A or AB
AB AB AO AO		 O or B
BB BO BO OO		 B
BB BB BO BO		 A, B or AB
AB BB AO BO
IBIB (BB) B
BO BO BO BO		 B or AB
AB BO AB BO		 AB
AB AB AB AB		 B
BB BO BB BO		 B
BB BB BB BB		 B or AB
AB BB AB BB
AB IAIB (AB) A or B
AO AO BO BO		 A, B or AB
AA AO AB BO		 A or AB
AA AA AB AB		 A, B or AB
AB AO BB BO		 B or AB
AB AB BB BB		 A, B, or AB
AA AB AB BB

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Inheritance of Sickle Cell Anaemia - Sickle Cell Society".
  2. ↑ "Myths of Human Genetics: Earwax".
  3. ↑ Sanfilippo syndrome
  4. ↑ "OMIM Entry - 304300 - CYANIDE, INABILITY TO SMELL".
  5. ↑ "Myths of Human Genetics: Introduction".
  6. ↑ Kim, U. K.; Jorgenson, E.; Coon, H.; Leppert, M.; Risch, N.; Drayna, D. (2003). "Positional cloning of the human quantitative trait locus underlying taste sensitivity to phenylthiocarbamide". Science. 299: 1221–1225. doi:10.1126/science.1080190.
  7. ↑ McDonald, J.H. 2011. Myths of Human Genetics. University of Delaware. http://udel.edu/~mcdonald/mythptc.html
  8. ↑ "ABO inheritance patterns". Inheritance patterns of blood groups. Australian Red Cross Blood Service. Retrieved 30 October 2013.
  9. ↑ "ABO blood group system". Abobloodtypes.webnode.com. Retrieved 2015-02-02.

Further reading

  • Mange, Elaine J.; Mange, Arthur R. (1999). Basic Human Genetics (second ed.). Sunderland (MA): Sinauer. ISBN 0-87893-497-9. Lay summary (16 October 2010).
  • Speicher, Michael R.; Antonarakis, Stylianos E.; Motulsky, Arno G., eds. (2010). Vogel and Motulsky's Human Genetics: Problems and Approaches. Heidelberg: Springer Scientific. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-37654-5. ISBN 978-3-540-37653-8. Lay summary (4 September 2010).
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