| Traditional patterns of inheritance |
Non-traditional patterns of inheritance |
| 1. Autosomal dominant inheritance |
1. Inheritance of mitochondrial disorders |
| 2. Autosomal recessive inheritance |
2. Inheritance of chromosomal abnormalities |
| 3. X-linked dominant inheritance |
3. Inheritance of multifactorial diseases |
| 4. X-linked recessive inheritance |
4. Inheritance of triplet repeat expansion disorders |
| 5. Y-linked inheritance |
5. Uniparentaldisomy |
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6. Inheritance of microdeletion/microduplication defects |
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7. Genetic imprinting |
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8. Gonadal Mosaicism |
