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Clinical geneticists classify human traits and genetic disorders on the basis of the patterns of inheritance in families: sporadic, autosomal dominant, autosomal recessive, X-linked, and mitochondrial. A compendium of genetic information, McKusickâs Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM) (see Website: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/omim/), has been assembled primarily based on clinical observations as to how traits and disease states appear to be inherited.
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Rupar, C.A. (2003). Heredity. In: Krawetz, S.A., Womble, D.D. (eds) Introduction to Bioinformatics. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-335-4_10
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