| 
  • If you are citizen of an European Union member nation, you may not use this service unless you are at least 16 years old.

  • Whenever you search in PBworks, Dokkio Sidebar (from the makers of PBworks) will run the same search in your Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, Gmail, and Slack. Now you can find what you're looking for wherever it lives. Try Dokkio Sidebar for free.

View
 

A Genetics 3

Page history last edited by Kaleigh Volpp 13 years, 4 months ago

Genetics

| Home | Causes  | Types of Albinism | Symptoms | Genetics | The Felowship |

 

     The genes for this disorder are located on the autosomal chromosomes. We normally have two copies of the chromosomes and the genes on them, but neither of them is functional in people with albinism. Albinism is a recessive trait, so even if only one of the two copies is functional, a person can make pigment, but will carry the albinism trait. Both parents must carry a defective gene to have a child with albinism. When both parents carry the defective gene there is a one in four chance at each pregnancy that the baby will be born with albinism. This type of inheritance is called autosomal recessive.[1]

 

  

Footnotes

  1. "What is Albinism?." NOAH. 2002. NOAH, Web. 2 Nov 2009. .

Comments (0)

You don't have permission to comment on this page.