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As Mendel observed over a century ago, the manifestation of a phenotype can crucially depend on the dominant–recessive relationship between alleles at a given locus. A study of plant ...

Dive into the difference between dominant and recessive genes. How could you take a piece of information and make it vanish from one generation, and then have it reappear? The only way is if the ...

Classic osteogenesis imperfecta, an autosomal dominant disorder associated with osteoporosis and bone fragility, is caused by mutations in the genes for type I collagen. A recessive form of the ...

Terms like "autosomal recessive" and "dominant" are frequently tossed around, and you've probably heard them. But what does any of that really mean regarding the traits that children inherit from ...

Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease and autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease are the best known of a large family of inherited diseases characterized by the development of renal ...

Pure-bred dogs have been regarded as superior to crossbreeds or what some people refer to as mutts. However, we now ...

Much of what you look like comes from a combination of your parents’ DNA. Your hair’s texture and color are no exception. Genetic information that’s embedded in your body creates a formula for what ...

"I will go up to the six-fingered man and say, 'Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.'" - Inigo Montoya, "The Princess Bride" If the six-fingered man had survived his ...

Researchers from Radboudumc, Department of Human Genetics, demonstrated something remarkable in a 2014 publication in Nature. Contrary to expectations, inherited variants in genes were rarely ...

Your genes are made of DNA. This DNA provides instructions, which determines traits like your hair color and blood type. There are different versions of genes. Each ...

Autosomal inheritance is when a parent passes down a condition to a child via autosomes, a type of chromosome. In autosomal inheritance, a copy of a faulty gene from one parent can cause a condition ...