Clinical genetics

Monogenic disorders and inheritance

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Explore how monogenic disorders are inherited and predicted through the use of Punnet squares, dihybrid crosses and generational pedigree analysis. Navigate the differences between sex-linked, recessive and dominant alleles and the impact they have on inheritance patterns.

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Learning outcomes

Identify inheritance patterns based on clinical presentations.
Define genetic conventions and recall the principles of underlying mechanisms and disorders.
Solve Punnet squares and inheritance patterns to predict the probabilities of genotypes and phenotypes.
Deduce patterns from pedigrees and propose explanations for inheritance observations.

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Manipulating and Presenting Data

Solve Punnet squares and use them to predict the probabilities of clinical genotypes and phenotypes

Interpreting and Analysing Data

Identify and solve inheritance patterns and Punnet squares
Deduce various patterns from pedigrees in order to propose logical explanations for inheritance observations

Concepts, Principles and Theories

Define genetic conventions and propose genetic conditions that matches the inheritance pattern of a Pedigree

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Biomedical science

Discipline

Clinical biomedical science

Topic

Clinical genetics

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