Multifactorial traits
18 important questions on Multifactorial traits
What is multifactorial inheritance?
What is polygenic inheritance?
What is monogenic disorder?
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What is an example of a monogenic disorder?
What does it mean when genetic factors are causative?
What are multifactorial/polygenic diseases?
What are examples of multifactorial traits?
How do you calculate the concordance rate?
How do you calculate the heritability of a trait based on difference between twin correlations?
What is the heritability when MZ twins: 70 out of 100 have the same disease: concordance rate = 70/100 (rmz) = 0,7
DZ twins: 30 out of 100 have the same disease: concordance rate = 30/100 (rdz) = 0,3
Why is the manic depression so high in concordance?
What are genome wide association studies?
What method can be used in a GWAS to analyze the SNPs?
What is a polygenic risk score (PRS)?
What is the odds ratio?
What does the odds ratio tell you?
How is the odds ratio calculated?
When do you use the odds ratio?
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