Name: polygenic traits in human height
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Heredity: Inheritance and Variation of Traits

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Polygenic Traits

当多个基因合作 影响表型时，结果是多基因 或许多基因特征。
 一个这样的特征是人的身高， 据信受到数百个基因座的影响。
 虽然每个基因通常在确定身高方面起着 最小的作用，但它们的作用相加， 以确定个体在成年期的大小。
 部分由于涉及的基因数量庞大， 人的身高差异很大。
 例如，成年女性在群体中的 最小高度可能约为5英尺， 而最大值约为6英尺。
 但是，存在各种规模的女性。
 图形化这种高度分布 显示出钟形曲线。
 只有少数女性接近最低或最高， 大多数接近平均值， 只有五个半英尺。
 因此，有时可以量化 和绘制由几种遗传因素 引起的单一表型如高度。
 重要的是，这适用于许多其他 多基因特征，如体重，血压， 甚至指纹中的脊数。

多基因性状

当一个以上的基因对一个特定的表型负责时，该性状被认为是多基因的。身高是一个多基因的特征。研究已经发现了数百个影响身高的基因座，据信还有更多。由于涉及的基因数量很多，以及环境和营养因素，在给定的人群中，身高差异很大。高度分布呈钟形曲线，最低或最高高度的个体相对较少，中等高度的个体占多数。大多数多基因特征，如体重、血压和指纹图谱，也绘制成钟形曲线。

<h4>人类身高的多基因特征</h4>
 
尽管孟德尔在基因遗传方面的开创性工作集中在单基因产生的性状上，但全基因组关联研究等实验表明，许多人类性状是通过多基因产物的合作而发展起来的。影响表型的众多基因的合作构成了一个多基因（即“多基因”）特征。
 
一个多基因特征的例子是人类的身高。人类身高变异涉及数百个基因座，据信还有更多的基因座尚未被确认。其中许多基因直接或间接影响生长板中的软骨，生长板存在于四肢的长骨中。
 
<h4>多基因性状的群体分布</h4>
 
人类身高差异很大，部分原因是有大量基因影响。身高还受环境和营养因素的影响，例如母亲是否在怀孕期间吸烟、母亲在怀孕期间的饮食和子女的饮食。
 
在女性最小身高约五英尺，最大身高约为六英尺的人群中，所有这些身高之间的女性都存在。绘制高度分布的结果是钟形曲线，相对较少的女性接近最小或最大高度，并且大多数人在5英尺半的平均高度附近显示出高度。大多数多基因性状，如体重、血压和指纹图谱的某些方面，如脊的数量，由于可能的等位基因组合数量很多，也呈钟形分布。

当多个基因共同决定某一特定表型时，该性状被称为多基因性状。人类身高是一种多基因性状。研究已揭示……

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polygenic traits in human height

Polygenic traits are traits controlled by more than one gene. Human height is a clear example of this kind of inheritance. Because many genes work together, the final trait can vary a lot from person to person.

Researchers have found hundreds of loci, or gene locations, that influence height. There are likely many more that have not yet been identified. Many of these genes affect cartilage in the growth plates of the long bones in the arms and legs, either directly or indirectly.

Height is also shaped by environmental and nutritional factors. These include whether the mother smoked during pregnancy, the mother’s diet during pregnancy, and the offspring’s diet. This is one reason height can differ so much within a population.

When height is plotted for a population, it usually forms a bell-shaped curve. Few people are close to the minimum or maximum heights, and most fall near the middle range. Other polygenic traits, such as weight, blood pressure, and some fingerprint features like ridge number, often show the same pattern because so many allele combinations are possible.

Polygenic Traits in Human Height

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Genotype, Phenotype, and Inheritance

Genotype, phenotype, and inheritance help explain how traits and disease risk are passed from parents to offspring. In diploid organisms, including humans, most other animals, and many plants, somatic cells carry a duplicate set of chromosomes. These chromosome pairs are homologous, with similar length, centromere position, and gene locations. Diploid organisms inherit two versions of each gene, one from each parent. These versions are called alleles, and they sit at the same relative locus,...

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Mendel’s Pea Plant Inheritance Ratios

Gregor Mendel used pea plants to study how traits are passed from parents to offspring. His breeding experiments in the 1850s and 1860s showed that inheritance follows clear patterns. He crossed true-breeding plants that differed in one trait and found that dominant traits can hide recessive traits. Mendel focused on seven pea plant traits, and each trait had two forms controlled by a single gene locus. He noticed that true-breeding plants always produced offspring with the same phenotype, or...

dihybrid crosses

Mendel's Law of Independent Assortment

Mendel’s law of independent assortment explains how two traits can be inherited separately. Gregor Mendel tested this idea with pea plants that differed in two characteristics, such as pea color and pea shape. He used true-breeding parents that were homozygous for both traits but showed different phenotypes. In one example, Mendel crossed round, yellow peas with wrinkled, green peas. The parental generation had RRYY and rryy genotypes. Their first-generation offspring were all dihybrids,...

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Mendel’s Pea Cross Ratios

Mendel’s pea plant crosses show how traits can disappear in one generation and return in the next. When he crossed plants, one parental trait sometimes seemed to vanish in the F1 generation and reappear in the F2 generation. Mendel used this pattern to explain why some traits are dominant and others are recessive. He proposed that traits are controlled by alleles, which are different versions of a gene. An organism inherits two copies of each gene, one from each parent. In his model, a...

law of independent assortment

Mendel’s Dihybrid Cross and Trait Ratios

Mendel’s dihybrid cross shows how two traits are inherited at the same time. A dihybrid cross is a cross in which both parents are homozygous for two distinct traits, and the F1 generation is heterozygous for both traits. Mendel used pea plants with round yellow peas and wrinkled green peas as an example. One parent had genotype YYRR, and the other had genotype yyrr. In the F1 generation, every plant showed the dominant traits, so the plants were YyRr and had yellow, round peas. The F2...

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Using Test Crosses to Identify Genotypes

Test crosses are used to identify the genotype of an organism with a dominant trait. A genotype is the pair of alleles inherited for a gene, and alleles are different forms of the same gene. In diploid organisms, including humans, each gene usually has two alleles, one from each parent. An allele is recessive when its effect is hidden by another allele at the same gene location. Pea plants provide a clear example with flower color. White flowers are recessive, because one copy of the purple...

polygenic traits

Polygenic traits are traits controlled by more than one gene. Human height is a clear example of this kind of inheritance. Because many genes work together, the final trait can vary a lot from person to person. Researchers have found hundreds of loci, or gene locations, that influence height. There are likely many more that have not yet been identified. Many of these genes affect cartilage in the growth plates of the long bones in the arms and legs, either directly or indirectly. Height is...

pedigree analysis

Reading Family Traits in Pedigrees

Pedigrees are family trees used to track how a trait passes through generations. They help scientists and students see whether a trait is dominant or recessive, whether it is autosomal or sex-linked, what genotypes family members may have, and what phenotypes may appear in future generations. For families with a history of inherited disease, this information can be important for family planning. In plants and animals, inheritance is often studied with crosses. Monohybrid crosses can show...

multiple allele traits

Blood Type and Allele Interactions

Multiple alleles can shape traits through blood type, sickle cell anemia, incomplete dominance, and codominance. Multiple allelism means a gene has three or more allelic forms. Diploid organisms, including humans, usually carry only two alleles for each gene, but many human genes exist in multiple forms in the population. Human blood type is a clear example of multiple allelism. The blood type gene has three alleles: I A , I B , and i. These alleles help determine which blood type a person has...

epistasis

Gene Masking in Rabbit Fur Color

Epistasis describes how one gene can mask or change the effect of another gene. In high school genetics, this helps explain why many traits do not follow a simple single-gene pattern. Instead, alleles at different locations can work together to shape the final phenotype. Mendel studied seven unrelated pea traits, but most traits involve multiple gene interactions. Epistasis often happens when one gene interferes with the expression of another gene. It can also occur when genes are part of the...

nature and nurture

Genes and Environment Shape Height

Genes and environment both shape human height and other traits. Genes are the inherited instructions we get from our parents. Environment includes factors such as diet, stress, and social conditions. Many phenotypes, or observable traits, reflect both influences. Some also show up later in life, including cancer and other diseases. Height is a clear example of this interaction. Scientists estimate that 70-90% of height variation comes from genetic differences among people. The remaining 10-30%...

pleiotropy

SOX10 and Multiple Traits in Pleiotropy

Pleiotropy is when one gene affects more than one trait. The SOX10 gene is a clear example because it can influence pigmentation, hearing, and intestinal movement. These traits may seem unrelated, but they can all be linked to the same gene change. In humans, a deleted region in SOX10 can cause Waardenburg Syndrome Type 4, or WS4. WS4 is an autosomal recessive disorder, which means a person usually inherits two altered copies of the gene. Common signs include a white forelock,...

sex-linked disorders

X- and Y-Linked Disorder Patterns

X- and Y-linked disorders come from mutations in genes on the sex chromosomes. These genes, like those on autosomes, are needed for normal body function. When a mutation causes a biological problem, the condition is called sex-linked. Y-linked disorders come from changes in the Y chromosome. They affect only males, because only males carry a Y chromosome. Mutations in this small chromosome can affect male sexual function and secondary sex characteristics. One example is Y-chromosome...

x-linked traits

X-Linked Inheritance in Families

X-linked inheritance explains how traits on the X chromosome are passed through families. In most mammalian species, females have two X sex chromosomes, while males have one X and one Y. A mutation on one X chromosome may be masked in females by a normal allele on the other X. In males, that same mutation is more likely to show because there is no second normal X to balance it. Traits caused by changes on the X chromosome are called X-linked traits. Color blindness is a well-studied example.

x-inactivation

Barr Bodies and X-Chromosome Balance

Barr bodies and X-chromosome balance help explain how female mammalian cells control gene activity from the X chromosome. The human X chromosome carries far more genes than the Y chromosome. Because males usually have one X chromosome and females have two, females would make twice as many of some proteins without a control system. To prevent that imbalance, female mammalian cells inactivate nearly all the genes on one X chromosome during early embryonic development. The inactive X condenses...

non-nuclear inheritance

Maternal DNA in Mitochondria and Chloroplasts

Maternal DNA in mitochondria and chloroplasts explains how some genes are inherited outside the nucleus. Most DNA is in the nucleus, but mitochondria and chloroplasts in the cell cytoplasm also carry their own DNA and can copy it independently of nuclear DNA. Mitochondria are found in both plant and animal cells. They are called the powerhouses of eukaryotic cells because they break down glucose to make energy for cellular activity. Mitochondrial DNA has about 37 genes, and many help with...

chromosomal theory of inheritance

How Genes Map to Chromosomes

Genes map to chromosomes, and this idea explains how Mendel’s inheritance patterns work. Gregor Mendel published his pea plant breeding results in 1866. He showed that physical traits follow predictable patterns. At the time, scientists did not yet know that genes existed. Mendel used the word "factors" for the hereditary units he studied. The details behind Mendel’s laws of segregation and independent assortment were still unknown for many years. In the late 1800s, better microscopes and...

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a. Use mathematics and computational thinking to predict patterns of inheritance, including dominance, recessiveness, codominance, and incomplete dominance. Examples: Use a Punnett square to illustrate codominance in genes for blood types. Use probability rules to predict the phenotypes of offspring from different parental combinations.

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Epistasis

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Pleiotropy

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Nature and Nurture

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Polygenic Traits in Human Height

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