Word: mendelianism
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...that I'm available regularly. No one who is not a hemophiliac can imagine what a relief it is to be able to work on schedule." His wife Joan recently bore the Raatzes' second baby. Like the first, it was a boy. And by a Mendelian pattern of inheritance, a hemophiliac cannot transmit the disease...
With some reason. The Mendelian domain, nine counties clustered around the port of Charleston, is abristle with 17 Army, Navy, Marine and Air Force installations that provide 55% of Greater Charleston's economy-and testify to Rivers' nonpartisan efficiency in looking after his constituents as chairman of the puissant House Armed Services Committee. Though Rivers, 62, has by no means been responsible for all of the military largesse that the U.S. has bestowed upon the Charleston area, his constituents generally believe that he has, and return him to Washington with metronomic regularity. Route 52 through Charleston is called...
...most common inherited diseases in Britain, as in the U.S., is cystic fibrosis, which occurs once in about 2,500 births.* The pattern of inheritance is Mendelian recessive-the gene carrying the defect is weak and is overpowered by a corresponding normal gene, so that a child with one normal parent does not develop the disease. But if both parents carry the abnormal gene, and it is proved by the birth of one child with cystic fibrosis, there is a one-in-four risk that any subsequent child will also be afflicted. Other diseases in the bad-risk group: some...
Rather Cheerful. Other abnormal conditions seen at birth are associated with defective genes, but the pattern is more complicated than Mendelian recessive. They produce hydrocephalus (water on the brain), spina bifida (failure of the spinal column to close), harelip and clubfoot. When a couple has had one child with one of these defects, the chance that a later child will have it is in the good-risk range, or about one in 25. "You may think that is rather serious," said Dr. Fraser Roberts, "but we think it is really something rather cheerful. You have to remember there...
...pick up, she left her books underneath the seat. The professor suggested that I return them to her, and I have been the victim of that conspiracy ever since." They were married in 1954, now have three children -William Cope, 6, Suzanne, 3, and John, 1-all, by some Mendelian long shot, blue-eyed blonds...