Doing this for every mother can lead you to tracing down your matrilineal ancestors. https://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=4402 There are four different Inheritance types Autosomal recessive, autosomal dominant, Mitochondrial, and random mutation. Autosomal recessive inheritance is when the child receives one mutated copy of a gene from each parent. With this inheritance there is a 25% chance that each child in the family will inherit a mitochondrial disease. Autosomal dominant inheritance is when the child receives one mutated copy of a gene from either one of their parents. This means that there is a 50% chance that each child in the family will inherit a mitochondrial disease. Mitochondrial inheritance is when the mitochondria contain its own DNA. The body has many cells and each cell has may have more than one mitochondria. Only mitochondrial disorders caused by mutations in the mitochondrial DNA are exclusively inherited from mothers. This means that there is a 100% chance that each child in the family will inherit a mitochondrial disease. This doesn’t mean that these are the only inheritance type, sometimes genes develop a mutation of their own that is not inherited from a
Doing this for every mother can lead you to tracing down your matrilineal ancestors. https://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=4402 There are four different Inheritance types Autosomal recessive, autosomal dominant, Mitochondrial, and random mutation. Autosomal recessive inheritance is when the child receives one mutated copy of a gene from each parent. With this inheritance there is a 25% chance that each child in the family will inherit a mitochondrial disease. Autosomal dominant inheritance is when the child receives one mutated copy of a gene from either one of their parents. This means that there is a 50% chance that each child in the family will inherit a mitochondrial disease. Mitochondrial inheritance is when the mitochondria contain its own DNA. The body has many cells and each cell has may have more than one mitochondria. Only mitochondrial disorders caused by mutations in the mitochondrial DNA are exclusively inherited from mothers. This means that there is a 100% chance that each child in the family will inherit a mitochondrial disease. This doesn’t mean that these are the only inheritance type, sometimes genes develop a mutation of their own that is not inherited from a