Figure 12.7 Pedigree Analysis and Inheritance (A) This pedigree represents a family affected by Huntington’s disease, which results from a rare dominant allele. Everyone who inherits this allele is affected. (B) The family in this pedigree carries the allele for albinism, a recessive trait. Because the trait is recessive, heterozygotes do not have the albino phenotype, but they can pass the allele on to their offspring. In this family, in generation III the heterozygous parents are cousins; however, the same result could occur if the parents were unrelated but heterozygous.