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Objective

General Introduction

Basic Anatomy of the Mammalian Genome
Inherited Phenotypes

 Simple or Mendelian traits

These are inherited traits for which the observed phenotypic variation is entirely explained by (bi-)allelic segregation at a single locus and which segregate according to one of basic Mendelian inheritance patterns: autosomal recessive, dominant and codominant.

The relationship between genotype and phenotype is simple: all the observed phenotypic variation can be explained by the variation at a single locus.

Simple traits include autosomal, X-linked and Y-linked traits which can be recessive, dominant

Molecular basis of dominance / recessivity.

 Complex Traits

Genetic Linkage
Linkage Disequilibrium

Genetic Markers

Map Construction

QTL Mapping in Outbred Half-Sib Pedigrees

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