Answer to Question #164713 in Genetics for Hima bindu

Question

Can Mendelian inheritance applied to explain all inheritance genetic diseases report in humans?or any exceptions?

Answer 1

Answer:

Mendelian inheritance can’t be applied to explain the inheritance of diseases that are caused by genes with following characteristics of inheritance: multiple alleles, incomplete dominance, codominance, pleiotropy, lethal alleles, sex linkage, complementary genes, epistasis, polygenic inheritance, environmental effects.

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Variations on Mendel's laws (overview)