Talk:Multifactorial Inheritance
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[edit] Remarks on Editing and Formatting
This is the first post to the talk page, and this is my first complete article on Wikipedia. Many of my footnotes are to the same researchers, but credit for ideas must go where credit is due. My only (very slight) regret is that the footnotes confuse the text. But the footnotes are written so that they could be easily modified, and a careful reading would tell you where you are in the text. But I don't really regret it, because of course, I would expect you to read anything carefully!).
Any suggestions or comments on improving the article (still rough around the edges) are welcome. Pking123 10:38, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Peter Turnpenny's Book
This book is available on Amazon, and is called Emery's Elements of Medical Genetics, 12th Edition. Chapter 9 of this book, which by a true act of God applies to this article very well (it was the only chapter available online), is a fairly concise and quick read, weighing different models of multifactorial inheritance against each other. In my last section of the article, I need to make more mention of linkage analysis, association studies, and twin studies as methods of identification of factors which cause multifactorial disorders. Pking123 19:05, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Other Books and Articles in Periodicals, Magazines, Journals
I must complain of having at least a couple of texts here on Genetics, neither of which are of a great deal of help. The most notable in my collection is Benjamin Lewin's classic Genes (I have Genes VI, now 10 years out of date, but still a formidable reference). The problem with Genes is that the book, in all of its 1200 or so pages, largely concerns itself with genes in somatic cells; not with germ lines, or pedigrees, or heritability. Another book I have, more generally to do with genetics, makes only cursory mention of multifactorial inheritance, and makes it synonymous with polygenetic inheritance (not all authors appear to do this). Pking123 19:40, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] References from other media (Audio, Video, Web, etc)
I would like this part to be a discussion on sources regarding this topic found in media outside of the print world. Pking123 20:38, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
