GenoPro Support Forum

One basic problem is that usually affected persons are represented by shading their symbol (mostly in black, when dealing with only one disease) and although it can be done in GP 2007 the process is rather cumbersome (from one click, if that selection was available, to 12 clicks). AFAIK, using a cross to denote affected individuals must be rare in medical publications (I don't remember having seen it before). I haven't found either a way to number generations and individuals. I don't think the recommendations link symbols with specific diseases. Could you please elaborate on this?

Those symbols are widely used in in medical publications and are, IMHO, a "de facto" standard (the only one I know, I must add). Twelve years is not much in many areas of medicine, in fact the use of squares and circles to represent males and females, respectively, dates back at least to 1845 ::.

Glad to learn that.

The document contains a series of symbols associate with specific disease. What happend to the others?

Are those symbols officially approved? Because the title of the document is "Recommendations for Standardized Human Pedigree Nomenclature" and is already 12 years old.

The good new is, GenoPro will be more customizable in the future and we will include more symbol for the medical field.

For now we have already 3 medicals medical standard in GenoPro.

• The bracket [ ] for adopted child.
• The diagonal line for dead individual
• The diamond of unknown gender.

To activate those symbols use the display menu as show:

Edited: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 by GenoProSupport