penetrant

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The PSEN1 mutation is associated with an early-onset form of Alzheimer’s, and it is often described as “100 percent penetrant,” which he quickly came to understand meant no exceptions — everyone with the variant gets the disease.

From New York Times

According to a National Transportation Safety Board report, the inspections used eddy current and fluorescent penetrant techniques; they were not visual inspections.

From New York Times

A role for inflammatory factors in autosomal dominant forms of neurodegeneration was suggested by the observation that numerous SNPs in the chemokine cluster that contains the gene CCL11 were linked to a 10-year difference in the age of onset of clinical AD symptoms in 72 people carrying a highly penetrant presenilin 1 mutation61.

From Nature

I was doing what’s called dye penetrant testing to make sure the pipe didn’t leak, and ultrasonic testing in which sound waves bounce through the metal, to check the pipe’s thickness after being bent.

From New York Times

The abundance of rare functional variation in many disease genes in ExAC is a reminder that such variants should not be assumed to be causal or highly penetrant without careful segregation or case-control analysis7, 24.

From Nature