recessive

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This has enriched rare functional variation, including recessive disorders and homozygous loss-of-function mutations, or “human knockouts.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

Pattinson has the more recessive role but his performance is so subtle and clever that it’s worth watching closely.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 5, 2025

Backed by Brazil's Ministry of Health, it will screen 5,000 couples for genes linked to serious recessive diseases.

From BBC • May 11, 2025

Cockayne syndrome is a severe autosomal recessive disorder caused by defective DNA repair mechanisms.

From Science Daily • Apr. 10, 2024

Being recessive, its expression would have been fitful.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides