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Heredity

The transmission of traits encoded in GENES from parent to offspring.
National Institutes of Health

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Genetic BackgroundHereditary DiseasesScience of geneticsTwin Studies as Topic

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Multifactorial Inheritanceblending inheritancegenetic linkagehereditary factors

Broader (1)

genetics and heredity

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Review
2012
Review
2012
Epigenetic Variations in Heredity and Evolution
The biological and medical importance of epigenetics is now taken for granted, but the significance of one aspect of it… 
Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Contribution of phenotypic plasticity and heredity to the trophic polymorphism of lacustrine brook charr (Salvelinus fontinalis M.)
The objectives of this study were to determine: (1) if morphological characters of littoral and pelagic brook charr are inherited… 
Review
1998
Review
1998
Expression genetics: a different approach to cancer diagnosis and prognosis.
Review
1997
Review
1997
Salivary gland disorders and heredity.
  • H. Wiedemann
  • American journal of medical genetics
  • 1997
  • Corpus ID: 40578673
From personal observations, I review the genetic disorders of salivary gland development and function, including the lacrimo… 
Review
1991
Review
1991
Animal asymmetry and human heredity: dextrality, tool use and language in evolution--10 years after Walker (1980).
At the time of the last major review on this subject in the British Journal of Psychology (Walker, 1980) there was, with a few… 
1987
1987
An investigation of aetiology and heredity of pterygium
Abstract A family with pterygium affecting 11 members of 3 generations was reported. Although the disease is not necessarily… 
1983
1983
Relative importance of genetic and nongenetic etiologies in idiopathic mental retardation: estimates based on analysis of medical histories
A method of analyzing subgroups of mental retardates for proportions of cases caused by nongenetic brain damage is presented here… 
1977
1977
Dominant cystoid macular dystrophy.
1977
1977
Mitochondrial heredity of resistance to 3-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-1,1-dimethylurea, an inhibitor of cytochrome b oxidation, in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
3-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-1,1-dimethylurea (diuron), an inhibitor of cytochrome b oxidation, has been used for the selection of… 
1969
1969
Threshold phenomena versus cell heredity in the manifestation of sex-linked genes in mammals.
The mode of action of sex-linked genes in mammals has been the subject of much discussion in recent years. This has centred round… 
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