recessive
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The 14-year-old has Dystrophic Recessive Epidermolysis Bullosa, a genetic condition causing the skin to tear or blister at the slightest touch.
From BBC • May 22, 2023
Recessive lethal alleles are only lethal in homozygotes, but dominant lethal alleles are fatal in heterozygotes as well.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
Recessive traits become latent, or disappear, in the offspring of a hybridization.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
Recessive mutations in the gene for a protein called wolframin are responsible for most cases, with glitches in a second gene causing most of the rest.
From Science Magazine • Feb. 11, 2021
The Stephanides family tree, diagrammed in Dr. Luce’s “Autosomal Transmission of Recessive Traits,” goes into more detail than I think you would care to know about.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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