The document discusses several human genetic disorders including cystic fibrosis, sickle-cell disease, and hemophilia. It explains that cystic fibrosis and hemophilia are caused by recessive alleles while sickle-cell disease involves a co-dominant allele. The document also introduces pedigrees as a tool geneticists use to track the inheritance of traits through families, representing males as squares and females as circles and using shading to indicate if an individual has a trait or is a carrier.