However, in combination with rare mutations in at least another HRD gene it causes disease by inheritance mechanisms that transcend the Mendelian model. While they genetically behave like multigenic ...

Bruce R. Conklin is at the Gladstone Institutes, University of California, San Francisco, and at the Innovative Genomics Institute, San Francisco, California 94158, USA. When Gregor Mendel tracked pea ...

What we know about the fundamental laws of inheritance began to take shape in a monastery garden in Moravia in the middle of the 19th century, when Gregor Mendel patiently cross-bred pea plants over ...

A relatively common gene mutation among Japanese individuals can give rise to vision problems through a complex inheritance pattern. Hereditary eye diseases usually arise from rare DNA mutations that ...