"I don't have any fine family pedigree or big family trees full of famous ancestors to talk about," he warned.

Since each of the contributing genes in these multigenic diseases has a small effect, they are hard to pick up from family pedigrees.

In the family pedigree published in the Antiquities he did not record the marriage.

He can print out his family pedigree with the tap of a few computer keys.

His father, however, mindful of preserving the family pedigree from risk of battle, would not allow this.

Most importantly, you'll need to obtain a family pedigree to determine if there is a cancer development pattern within your family.

After outlining the family pedigree, a blood test can be given to determine if you have a breast cancer gene.

He would then create a family pedigree that traced over time the inheritance of a given family's defective genes.

Even better, the position is part of the family pedigree.

One Larry Shannon is listed in three family pedigrees from 1500 to 1850.