What can Gregor Mendel’s pea plants tell us about human disease? Single gene disorders, like Huntington’s disease and cystic fibrosis, actually follow Mendelian inheritance patterns.

What happens when good genes go bad? What kinds of mutations create "lethal genes," and how are they passed on? Lethal genes can be recessive, as in the aforementioned mouse experiments.

Mendel knew exactly what this meant. Height was passed down in a particle we now call a gene (though Mendel never used that term himself). A plant was short or tall depending on the random ...

Gregor Mendel discovered the basic principles of heredity through experiments with pea plants, long before the discovery of DNA and genes. Mendel was an Augustinian monk at St Thomas’s Abbey ...

Mendel gave a few lectures on his findings about genetics in pea plants, but no one seemed to grasp the importance for understanding how traits are inherited. Meanwhile, based on Darwin’s writings, ...

More information: Shuhe Liu, Zhen Wei, Daniel F. Carr, John Moraros, Deciphering the genetic interplay between depression and dysmenorrhea: a Mendelian randomization study, Briefings in ...