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  2. 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.

  3. Achondroplasia - Wikipedia

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    The disorder has an autosomal dominant mode of inheritance, meaning only one mutated copy of the gene is required for the condition to occur. [8] About 80% of cases occur in children of parents without the disease, and result from a new (de novo, or sporadic) mutation, which most commonly originates as a spontaneous change during ...

  4. Human genetics - Wikipedia

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    Autosomal traits are associated with a single gene on an autosome (non-sex chromosome)—they are called "dominant" because a single copy—inherited from either parent—is enough to cause this trait to appear. This often means that one of the parents must also have the same trait, unless it has arisen due to an unlikely new mutation.

  5. Hereditary carrier - Wikipedia

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    Autosomal dominant-recessive inheritance is made possible by the fact that the individuals of most species (including all higher animals and plants) have two alleles of most hereditary predispositions because the chromosomes in the cell nucleus are usually present in pairs . Carriers can be female or male as the autosomes are homologous ...

  6. Mendelian traits in humans - Wikipedia

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    Autosomal dominant A 50/50 chance of inheritance. Sickle-cell disease is inherited in the autosomal recessive pattern. When both parents have sickle-cell trait (carrier), a child has a 25% chance of sickle-cell disease (red icon), 25% do not carry any sickle-cell alleles (blue icon), and 50% have the heterozygous (carrier) condition. [1]

  7. Genetic disorder - Wikipedia

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    Autosomal dominant Familial hypercholesterolemia: 1 in 500 [11] Myotonic dystrophy type 1: 1 in 2,100 [12] Neurofibromatosis type I: 1 in 2,500 [13] Hereditary spherocytosis: 1 in 5,000 Marfan syndrome: 1 in 4,000 [14] Huntington's disease: 1 in 15,000 [15] Autosomal recessive Sickle cell anaemia: 1 in 625 [16] Cystic fibrosis: 1 in 2,000 Tay ...

  8. Hereditary spherocytosis - Wikipedia

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    Hereditary spherocytosis can be an autosomal recessive or autosomal dominant trait. [9] The autosomal recessive inheritance pattern accounts for close to 25% of the clinical cases. The autosomal dominant inheritance pattern accounts for over 75% of the clinical cases. Many positive individuals will not present clinically, thus the etiologic ...

  9. Ectrodactyly–ectodermal dysplasia–cleft syndrome - Wikipedia

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    This means that there is an abnormal gene on one of the autosomal (non-sex) chromosomes from either parent. Because the gene is dominant, only one parent must contribute the abnormal gene for the child to inherit the disease and the contributing parent will usually have the disease, due to the expression of the dominant gene in the parent. [16]