Baby feature prediction based on genome and phenotype of parents.

Question

[Shicheng Guo]

Hi All,

How and can we predict the baby's features (height, face characteristics and so on) if we know the genome and phenotype information (weight, height, face and so on) of the parents? Is there any papers? prediction model?

Best regards

[Michael]

I think there are papers on human genetics, yes ;)

[Istvan Albert]

the way you pose the question is too generic - a short answer is that very few phenotypes can be determined precisely from the genotype - as Michael pointed out this is a scientific field of its own

http://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/inheritance-of-traits-by-offspring-follows-predictable-6524925