URING a study of color inheritance in the domestic pigeon three D autosomal factors have been found to be linked. In a preliminary report (HOLLANDER 1936) certain statements were made which must be modified in the light of additional data. Previous authors have failed to demonstrate any autosomal linkages in the pigeon. CHRISTIE and WRIEDT (1923) attempted to show a linkage between white-tail a...

Idiopathic torsion dystonia (ITD) has long been considered to be genetically determined, but the pattern of inheritance has been unclear. It has been suggested that inheritance may differ in Jews and non-Jews. In the present study, data gathered in a nationwide survey of ITD in Israel were analysed. Between 1969 and 1980, 47 patients were collected, of whom 40 were of European origin. In these ...

PURPOSE To present the clinical profiles and inheritance patterns of familial childhood epilepsy in the highly consanguineous population of Jordan. METHODS This retrospective study examined children diagnosed with epilepsy and having at least one epileptic parent or sibling. The epilepsy type was classified according to the criteria of the International League Against Epilepsy. Patients were ...

The virtues of viewing the lexicon as an inheritance network are its succinctness and its tendency to highlight significant clusters of linguistic properties. From its succinctness follow two practical advantages, namely its ease of maintenance and modification. In this paper we present a feature-based foundation for lexical inheritance. We shall argue that the feature-based foundation is both ...

Two mutations are described that alter the pattern of inheritance of chloroplast genes in Chlamydomonas. The mutant gene mat-1 linked to the mating type allele mt(-) greatly increases the frequency of exceptional zygotes, i.e., zygotes that transmit chloroplast genes from the mt(-) (male) parent. In some crosses, 80-90% of the zygotes are biparental, transmitting chloroplast genes from both par...

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a genetic disorder that has a primarily autosomal dominant inheritance pattern, with variable penetrance and phenotypic expressivity [1]. Although its etiology has been linked to defects in various genes encoding for the sarcomeric proteins, association of HCM with immune linked disorders like myasthenia gravis is extremely rare. We report a case of obstruct...

Some animal groups, such as birds, seem prone to extreme forms of sexual selection. One contributing factor may be sex linkage of genes affecting male displays and female preferences. Here we show that sex linkage can have substantial effects on the genetic correlation between these traits and consequently for Fisher's runaway and the good-genes mechanisms of sexual selection. Under some kinds ...