Editing Mendelian inheritance (section)

=== Pedigrees ===
Pedigrees are visual tree like representations that demonstrate exactly how alleles are being passed from past generations to future ones.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Miller |first=Christine |title=Human biology |date=2020 |publisher=Thompson Rivers University |chapter=5.13 Mendelian Inheritance |chapter-url=https://humanbiology.pressbooks.tru.ca/chapter/5-12-mendelian-inheritance/}}</ref> They also provide a diagram displaying each individual that carries a desired allele, and exactly which side of inheritance it was received from, whether it was from their mother's side or their father's side.<ref name=":0" /> Pedigrees can also be used to aid researchers in determining the inheritance pattern for the desired allele, because they share information such as the gender of all individuals, the phenotype, a predicted genotype, the potential sources for the alleles, and also based its history, how it could continue to spread in the future generations to come. By using pedigrees, scientists have been able to find ways to control the flow of alleles over time, so that alleles that act problematic can be resolved upon discovery.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Galla |first1=Stephanie J. |last2=Brown |first2=Liz |last3=Couch-Lewis (Ngāi Tahu: Te Hapū o Ngāti Wheke, Ngāti Waewae) |first3=Yvette |last4=Cubrinovska |first4=Ilina |last5=Eason |first5=Daryl |last6=Gooley |first6=Rebecca M. |last7=Hamilton |first7=Jill A. |last8=Heath |first8=Julie A. |last9=Hauser |first9=Samantha S. |date=January 2022 |title=The relevance of pedigrees in the conservation genomics era |journal=Molecular Ecology |volume=31 |issue=1 |pages=41–54 |doi=10.1111/mec.16192 |pmid=34553796 |pmc=9298073 |bibcode=2022MolEc..31...41G }}</ref>