Chapter 1, Problem 8P

Summary Introduction

To determine: The presence of disease in all the 10 offspring of the affected siblings and the reason for the difference.

Introduction. The pedigree chart helps to depict the complete history of the pattern of inheritance of genetic disease from one generation to another generation. The inheritable genetic disease is either autosomal dominant or recessive or sex-linked based on which the probability of disease in a future generation can be predicted.