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  2. Inbreeding - Wikipedia

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    Autosomal recessive disorders occur in individuals who have two copies of an allele for a particular recessive genetic mutation. [23] Except in certain rare circumstances, such as new mutations or uniparental disomy , both parents of an individual with such a disorder will be carriers of the gene.

  3. Genetic purging - Wikipedia

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    Genetic purging is the increased pressure of natural selection against deleterious alleles prompted by inbreeding. [ 1 ] Purging occurs because deleterious alleles tend to be recessive, which means that they only express all their harmful effects when they are present in the two copies of the individual (i.e., in homozygosis).

  4. Dominance (genetics) - Wikipedia

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    Autosomal dominant and autosomal recessive inheritance, the two most common Mendelian inheritance patterns. An autosome is any chromosome other than a sex chromosome.. In genetics, dominance is the phenomenon of one variant of a gene on a chromosome masking or overriding the effect of a different variant of the same gene on the other copy of the chromosome.

  5. List of genetic disorders - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of genetic disorders and if known, type of mutation and for the chromosome involved. ... recessive 1:15,000 Alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency: 14q32

  6. Inbreeding depression - Wikipedia

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    Recessive traits can only occur in an offspring if present in both parents' genomes. The more genetically similar the parents are, the more often recessive traits appear in their offspring. This normally has a positive effect, as most genes are undergoing purifying selection (the homozygous state is favored).

  7. Genetic disorder - Wikipedia

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    A woman who is a carrier of an X-linked recessive disorder (X R X r) has a 50% chance of having sons who are affected and a 50% chance of having daughters who are carriers of one copy of the mutated gene. X-linked recessive conditions include the serious diseases hemophilia A, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, and Lesch–Nyhan syndrome, as well as ...

  8. Human genetics - Wikipedia

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    Autosomal recessive inheritance, a 25% chance. Autosomal recessive traits is one pattern of inheritance for a trait, disease, or disorder to be passed on through families. For a recessive trait or disease to be displayed two copies of the trait or disorder needs to be presented. The trait or gene will be located on a non-sex chromosome.

  9. Medical genetics of Jews - Wikipedia

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    Genetic disorders common in Mizrahi (Oriental) Jews [2] Disease Mode of inheritance Gene or enzyme Carrier frequency Populations Beta-thalassemia: Hematology Autosomal recessive HBB: 1/6 Iran, Kurdistan, Syria Factor VII deficiency: Hematology, medical genetics Autosomal recessive F7: 1/40 Iran Familial Mediterranean fever: Rheumatology, immunology