Qualitative Traits: Risk Assessment
About the Lecture
The lecture Qualitative Traits: Risk Assessment by Georgina Cornwall, PhD is from the course Multifactorial Inheritance.
Included Quiz Questions
Which of the following correctly represents the relative risk ratio of a disease?
- Presence of the disease in relatives / Presence of the disease in the population
- Presence of the disease in the population / Presence of the disease in relatives
- Presence of the disease in the population / Presence of disease in first-degree relatives
- Presence of the disease in first-degree relatives / Presence of the disease in the population
- Presence of the disease in first-degree relatives / Presence of the disease in relatives
What does a relative risk ratio of 1 imply?
- The risk of the disease within a family is equal to that of the general population.
- The risk of the disease in a family is less than that of the general population.
- The risk of the disease in a family is more than that of the general population.
- The risk of disease in a family is equal to 1.
- The risk of disease in a family is 100%.
In patients with schizophrenia, 4% of first-degree relatives had schizophrenia while only 0.2% of first-degree relatives of matched controls exhibited schizophrenia. How many more times greater is the incidence of schizophrenia in siblings as compared to unrelated people?
- 20x
- 0.05x
- 18x
- 5x
- 2x
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Author of lecture Qualitative Traits: Risk Assessment
Georgina Cornwall, PhD
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