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Drawing a family

history worksheet

Use these internationally agreed


pedigree symbols for individuals.
Draw the genetic family history (pedigree) here
Sex
Male Female
Unknown

Individual

Affected individual
(symbol coloured in)

Multiple individuals 5 5 5

Deceased

Pregnancy P P P

Miscarriage
male female

Person providing
pedigree information

Join the pedigree symbols


together by lines to show family
relationships as in this diagram.

Marriage/partnership

Divorce/separation

Where the partners


are blood relatives
(consanguineous relationship)

sibship line of
line descent
Children/siblings
individual
line

Identical twins
(monozygotic)

Non-identical twins
(dizygotic)

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