Dominant-recessive inheritance: diseases

Dominant-recessive inheritance: diseases

• PKU -- phenylketonuria
• Tay-Sachs disease
• Sickle cell anemia

Chromosomal abnormalities

• Down Syndrome
• XYY syndrome
• Klinefelter syndrome (XXY)
• Turner syndrome (XO)

Other characteristics

• personality?
• Intelligence?

These characteristics are subject to polygenic influence