Autosomal inheritance is when a parent passes down a condition to a child via autosomes, a type of chromosome. In autosomal inheritance, a copy of a faulty gene from one parent can cause a condition ...

Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is an eye condition that can be genetic. In this way, people usually need to inherit two copies of a genetic variation that causes RP, one coming from each parent. RP may ...

Purpose We describe a mother and all her offspring with congenital superior oblique palsy (CSOP), and a father and all his sons with unilateral CSOP. We discuss the inheritance pattern in our ...

Nearly everyone — with rare exceptions — is born with 23 pairs of chromosomes that were passed down from parents through combinations of their 46 chromosomes. X and Y, the two most popularly known ...

Based on the inheritance pattern, EDS can be classified as autosomal dominant, autosomal recessive, and autosomal dominant or recessive. In each of these types, a set of major and minor criteria is ...