Congenital microphthalmia is a developmental defect of ocular disorder with autosomal dominant, autosomal recessive, and X-linked recessive modes of inheritance.

At present, three modes of inheritance are identified including maternal uniparental disomy for chromosome 7 and autosomal dominant or autosomal recessive inheritance.

The limb-girdle muscular dystrophies are divided into two types according to inheritance pattern, type 1 is autosomal dominant and type 2 is autosomal recessive.