A complete pedigree is often a work of great labour, and its finished form is frequently a work of art. Karl Pearson, 1912.
Selected papers and books about pedigrees
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R. G. Resta, The Crane's Foot: The Rise of the Pedigree in The Human Genetics. J. Genetic Couns., 1993, 2, 235–260.
A fascinating paper about the history of pedigrees.
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R. L. Bennett, The Practical Guide to the Genetic Family History. Wiley-Liss: 1999.
A good practical ``how-to'' for making pedigrees.
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R. L. Bennett, K. A. Steinhaus, S. B. Uhrich, C. K. O'Sullivan, R. G. Resta, D. Lochner-Doyle, D. S. Markei, V. Vincent, J. Hamanishi. Recommendations for Standardized Human Pedigree Nomenclature. Am. J. Hum. Genet., 1995, 56, 745–752.
The 1995 edition of the pedigree standards.
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R. L. Bennett, K. S. French, R. G. Resta, D. L. Doyle. Standardized Human Pedigree Nomenclature: Update and Assessment of the Recommendations of the National Society of Genetic Counselors. J. Genet. Counsel., 2008, 17, 424–433.
The current version of the standards.
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B. Veytsman and L. Akhmadeeva. Drawing medical pedigree trees with TEX and PSTricks, PracTEX J., 4, 2006, https://www.tug.org/pracjourn/2006-4/veytsman.
Reprinted in: B. Veytsman and L. Akhmadeeva. Drawing medical pedigree trees with TEX and PSTricks, TUGboat, 28(1), 100-109, 2007, http://www.tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb28-1/tb88veytsman-pedigree.pdf.
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L. Akhmadeeva. Using a New Package for Drawing Pedigrees for Teaching Medical Genetics. Eur. J. Hum. Gen., 15, Suppl. 1, 338, 2007.
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B. Veytsman and L. Akhmadeeva. Medical pedigrees: Typography and interfaces, TUGboat, 30(2), 227-235, 2009, https://www.tug.org/members/TUGboat/tb30-2/tb95veytsman-pedigree.pdf
You can download the list of references in the BibTeX format.
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