Non-Mendelian inheritance
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Non-Mendelian inheritance is any pattern in which traits do not segregate in accordance with Mendel's laws. These laws describe the inheritance of traits linked to single genes on chromosomes in the n
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Carl Correns
Co-dominant expression of genes for plumage colours.
In the genepool of cats (Felis catus) there is a recessive allele for orange coat on the X-Chromosome. In a male the Y-Chromosome cannot compensate this, so a tomcat with that allele is born orange. This allele is epistatic over some other coat color genes.
Polygene
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A polygene is a member of a group of non-epistatic genes that interact additively to influence a phenotypic trait, thus contributing to multiple-gene inheritance, a type of non-Mendelian inheritance,
Example of a genome-wide scan for QTL of osteoporosis