Dominant

>Achondroplasia (a common form of dwarfism with short arms and legs), >Familial hypercholesterolemia (high blood cholesterol leading to premature coronary artery disease), >Huntington disease (a form of progressive dementia from which the folk singer Woody Guthrie suffered), >Neurofibromatosis (NF1)(a neurologic disorder with an increased risk of malignant tumors), and >Polycystic kidney disease (of adult onset).

</LI></UL> Most dominant trait are due to genes located on the autosomes (the non-sex chromosomes).

An autosomal dominant trait typically affects males and females with equal likelihood and with similar severity.

The gene responsible for it can be transmitted from generation to generation and each child born to someone with the gene has a 50:hance of receiving the gene and manifesting the disease.